Imperial Castle of Nuremberg
Hilltop imperial fortress with a round keep, imperial chapel and a well cut deep into the rock.
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This guide to the Imperial Castle of Nuremberg stays at the Deep Well in the outer courtyard, a shaft cut through the castle rock long before anyone wrote it down. It is about the unnamed people whose daily work kept the emperors' fortress supplied with water, from the diggers to the cleaners to the carters on the hill. Stand beside the half-timbered well house, ideally when the guided tour lowers its candle.
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