The Baroque diocesan and university town of Eichstätt is the heart of the Altmühltal Nature Park. Year after year, its great architectural harmony balancing sacred buildings with secular ones, wide squares, elegant fountains and enchanting narrow lanes attracts more and more enthusiastic visitors.

Art, culture and history lovers, as well as nature lovers, find plenty of opportunities here. Together with a rather unusual possibility - a stone quarry open to the public for fossil searching: with a bit of luck you might even find one petrified specimen of the rare Archae­opteryx bird.

Baroque townscape, cathedral (burial site with stained-glass windows by Hans Holbein, Pappen­heim altar, statue of ... [Read more]