Explorar Augsburgo

Augsburg Town Hall was built in 1615-1624 by city architect Elias Holl in the Renaissance style, and was the tallest secular building in the world on completion. Its interior includes the Golden Hall, and the gabled facade carries the imperial eagle and the city's pine-cone emblem.

St. Anne's Church is a medieval parish church in Augsburg, built from 1321 as the church of a Carmelite priory and Lutheran since 1548. Its Fugger Chapel, added from 1518 as a burial chapel for the Fugger merchant family, is one of the earliest Renaissance structures north of the Alps and has remained Catholic ever since.

The Schaezlerpalais is a Rococo palace in Augsburg, built between 1765 and 1770 by the architect Carl Albert von Lespilliez. Its gilded mirrored ballroom survives intact. The palace houses the Deutsche Barockgalerie's 17th- and 18th-century German paintings, with a Baroque garden open to the public.

The Fuggerei is a walled housing settlement in Augsburg founded in 1516 by the banker Jakob Fugger the Younger for needy Catholic citizens of the city. Still inhabited today under the original conditions of residency, it is the oldest social housing complex still in use, with gated streets, small squares and a chapel inside its walls.

The Botanischer Garten Augsburg opened on its present 10-hectare site in 1936, next to Augsburg Zoo at the edge of the Siebentischwald forest. It holds more than 3,100 plant species and varieties, including a Japanese garden, a rose garden and glasshouses, with over a million bulb plants flowering each spring.

Augsburg Zoo opened on 12 June 1937 as the Park der deutschen Tierwelt on the edge of the Siebentischwald forest. Spread over 22 hectares next to the Botanical Garden, it keeps around 1,600 animals from some 300 species and takes part in European breeding programmes for endangered species.