Franziskanerkloster
Hilltop baroque friary and rococo church with old-town views, marking the Romantic Road's end.
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This guide to the Franciscan friary of Saint Stephen in Füssen starts at a gate behind the church and follows the money behind a house of friars sworn to poverty. It runs from a prince-bishop's building bill in the sixteen-twenties through the brewing and distilling that kept the community going, to the upheaval of Bavaria's secularisation. Listen from the gate at the back of the church, then walk round to the square on the west side.
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