Palais Prinz Carl
Former grand hotel and coaching inn with a chandeliered hall of mirrors overlooking the Madonna fountain.
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This guide to the Palais Prinz Carl on Heidelberg's Kornmarkt follows one corner of the Old Town through its appetites, starting in fifteen fifty-seven with a city council deciding what a square was for. It touches the hospital that stood here first, the inn named after the Elector Karl Theodor, and the grand hotel's boastful guest list of emperors and writers. Best heard by the Madonna column, facing the palais.
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