Nuremberg is full of history. In the morning, Felix and I visited a museum at the former Nazi party rallying grounds, which has an permanent exhibit dedicated to how Nazi Germany came about.
Then we walked around to see the Zeppelin Field which Hitler built to hold his Nazi propaganda rallies.
It was very strange to be there. Hitler's propaganda videos always look so grandiose, but this place is falling apart. I really didn't like being there. It bothered me much more so than any other museum about the Nazis and the Holocaust. It was that podium that bothered me the most.
Now the German's hold this rock festival in the stadium. They were setting up for it the day that we went there. All those trailers are from various beer companies.
After that we had enough serious museums for one day and headed into the center of Nuremberg where the Nuremberg Castle sits on a hill above the city. I thought it was particularly awesome because the people who built it incorporated the sandstone it is built on right into the walls of the city. Besides making a good building material, the sandstone is also an aquifer and they dug a well to supply fresh water to the castle. There was a bunch more about the geology, but it was all in German, and Felix didn't know how to translate a lot of it into English.
Here's the view from the top of one of the towers in the castle. Very rainy and cold day, but it was still beautiful with all the orange tiled roofs.
The beautiful streets of Nuremberg. June 1, 2010
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