Historischer Kunstbunker
Rock-cut cellar under the castle hill where priceless art and imperial regalia survived the war.
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This guide to the Historischer Kunstbunker in Nuremberg goes down into a medieval beer cellar under Castle Hill that the city refitted in 1940 to shelter its art from the bombs. You'll meet the treasures that waited out the war in the rock, from Dürer paintings to an altar taken from occupied Kraków, and the imperial regalia Hitler had brought from Vienna. Best heard at the cellar door on Obere Schmiedgasse, before the tour heads underground.
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