The Great Street

"According to the plans of the architect, Albert Speer, the Great Street was to be the central axis of the Party Rally Grounds. It is 60 meters wide and was to be 2000 meters long. Only 1500 meters were completed. For this, 60,000 granite slabs were laid. Speer aligned the Great Street with the Imperial Castle in the Old Town, to create a symbolic link between Nuremberg as the city of the imperial diets and Nuremberg as the "City of the Party Rallies".

BMW European Delivery - Day Five

February 18th 2015
I was really looking forward to this particular day of the trip. When planning our itinerary I decided to forego our usual favorite haunts in the German and Austrian Alps because it was simply too big a chore and too expensive to equip my X1 with snow tires. Instead I planned a route taking us to northern Bavarian towns that my wife and I last visited back in the 1980s when we both worked for Pan ... read more

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