Aschaffenburg

On the way home from Belgium, we took the opportunity to put another couple of blue dots on our Castles of Bavaria poster by staying overnight in Aschaffenburg in northern Bavaria. The next morning we visited the Johannisburg Palace and the Pompeiianum on the banks the Main River.

In the Palace museum we found the world’s largest collection of cork architectural models. These amazing intricately carved reproductions of the ruins of Rome were created by the court confectioner and his son in the 1790’s.

Later in the morning we ventured out of town to the Schoenbusch Palace. We wandered around the English style gardens and, being back in Germany, had lunch at the biergarten.

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