Fleischbrücke
Single-arch Renaissance stone bridge crowned by an ox portal with a witty Latin riddle.
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This guide to the Fleischbrücke in Nuremberg starts at the stone ox above the gateway at the bridge's end, and the Latin riddle set in bronze beneath it since fifteen ninety-nine. It wanders into the old meat trade the portal once served, and into a scene a seventeenth-century poet wrote about this exact gate, complete with butcher, cow and barking dog. Stand facing the ox portal, with the bridge's single arch at your back.
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