Große Straße
Unfinished granite parade avenue, paved in two-tone slabs and aimed at a medieval castle.
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This guide to the Große Straße in Nuremberg looks at a road designed in the nineteen thirties not for traffic but for marching boots, and at the granite squares that still pave it. You'll hear about Albert Speer's plan for the rally grounds, the slabs measured against a soldier's stride, and the sightline aimed across the city at the Imperial Castle. Best heard standing on the stone itself, facing northwest down the long axis.
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