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Bayreuth
(
German:
[?ba??r???t]
or
[ba???r???t]
;
Upper Franconian:
[ba(ː)??a??t]
;
Bavarian
:
Bareid
;
East Franconian
:
Baraid
) is a town in northern
Bavaria
,
Germany
. It is the
capital
of
Upper Franconia.
About 74,000 people live there. Bayreuth is internationally famous for the
Bayreuth Festival
(
German
:
Bayreuther Festspiele
), a festival for the music of
Richard Wagner
. Nearby bigger cities are
Coburg
,
Bamberg
,
Hof
and
Nuremberg
. Bayreuth has a university, the
University of Bayreuth
.
Bayreuth has a lot of sights and historical buildings which are usually visited by many tourists, especially at the time of the Bayreuth Festival. You can find sights such as the New Palace (
Neues Schloss
),
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
, Eremitage, Spitalkirche, The Old Castle, Margravial Opera House, and
Wahnfried
. Most of the sights have been built in the
18th century
and the
19th century
. The most popular sight in Bayreuth is the
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
, which is a major
opera building
located north of Bayreuth.
- ↑
Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes fur Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevolkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag
(Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011) .
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