the state of Sachsen-Anhalt and dates back over a  millennia picturesque doesn't even begin to do it  

justice but you'll soon see for yourself in this  video we'll explore the old town which is a maze  

of romanesque half-timbered houses we'll feast  on hearty meat dishes we'll indulge your sweet  

tooth with the most delicious cheesecake plus  we'll admire some dreamy art nouveau villas and  

also enjoy a bit of nature so if that sounds  like your idea of a good time we invite you to  

join us on this tour of Quedlinburg good morning  friends how are you today hello hello everyone  

welcome to our next destination we are currently  in Quedlinburg a beautiful medieval town  

in case you haven't noticed there's been a bit  of a theme of the trip we're doing at the moment  

so we've been showing you lots of timber framed  houses and we're purposely visiting towns that  

have that specific type of architecture yeah  exactly we've really wanted to explore some  

cultural gems and we're excited to be here we  took no less than four trains to get here this  

morning four trains we were up bright in early 4  30 in the morning that's right but you know what  

i think it's been worth the journey to get here  we're super pumped it's still only like 10 in the  

morning so we've got the whole day ahead of us and  we're gonna bring you along so a few little fun  

facts about this place the castle the church and  the old town are listed as unesco world heritage  

sites i can see why yeah i was just gonna say easy  to see why i mean extremely impressive just feels  

like you're stepping back in time it looks very  historic very charming and also this is one of the  

stops you can do along the romanesque road which  is a bit of a road trip you can do here in germany  

obviously we've been getting around by train but  if you wanted to you could drive around and visit  

little romanesque towns i want to say that this  morning sam was complimenting my hat weren't you  

why are you wearing it again just kidding okay  today we had to be up at 4 30 in the morning in  

order to catch our four trains to get here there  was no time to wash my hair and like no amount  

of dry shampoo was helping me so this is kind  of disguising a bit of a mess that's going on  

but you like my hat right i do like your hat and  i'm loving this walk to the town so far you know  

this feels the most i don't know how i can say it  but like authentic old part of the city that we've  

seen in a while you get a sense of uh you know  the age of the place i mean what is this like  

our third or fourth town yeah that we're visiting  with this type of architecture and yeah this one  

definitely feels the oldest thing and just the  way that these these tiny little roads you know  

they're not made it's a bit of a maze to be honest  yeah but it's really cool it's so cool so far

our first stop that morning was the Schlossgarten  or castle garden which offers a nice vantage  

point over the city it's red rooftops and  church steeples as far as the eye can see  

the quintessential medieval  town of Quedlinburg, Germany

welcome to the castle gardens welcome what  a beautiful manicure garden this is yes  

so symmetrical comes from the baroque era  where they believe that man could tame nature  

and have perfect control over it yes and that's  why we have trees shaped like little triangles  

exactly also this garden is the best place for  city views oh my goodness it sure is i mean  

you get the most incredible rooftop views i  feel it's amazing how the town has kept its  

heritage over the years so we couldn't visit  the castle since it was closed for renovations  

but we did get to visit the collegiate church  of saint servatius which sits on a sandstone  

cliff and is an imposing landmark that can be  viewed from several angles from the town below  

this church was dedicated in the year 1129  though it was preceded by earlier structures  

in the crypt beneath the choir you'll find the  royal graves of henry the first who is considered  

to be the first german king and his wife matilde  okay so we are making our way down the hill  

lots of steps all around we visited the church  and it is under restoration as i mentioned earlier  

so when you go in there's actually a lot  of scaffolding so it's a little difficult  

to appreciate the architecture and the nave but it  will be completed in about two years time from the  

time we're filming this and then we also visited  the treasury and the crypt but the only thing is  

we're not allowed to film in there and that's  probably like the most interesting part almost  

of the church you know seeing the crypt but it's  the part that's off limits to cameras off limits  

to cameras you'll have to go in and experience  it for yourself fortunately the treasury is  

quite small but they have some really beautiful  ornaments like the bible that belong to the rulers  

which is embellished with jewels and things like  that and if you're lucky enough to visit in a few  

years when this entire project has been completed  you'll have to let us know how spectacular it  

looks because they're obviously doing some  major work on both the inside and outside

that morning we ended up joining a guided  walking tour around town to get a good lay  

of the land and also learn about the town's  unique architecture Quedlinburg Germany  

happens to be germany's largest half timber  town with more than 1300 timber frame houses  

and the cool thing is that you can walk around  and see how the style evolved over the centuries

that really stretch your arms naturally quite  dark too one of the places we visited was the  

half timbered museum which dates back to the 14th  century and shows a very early example of this  

type of construction inside the museum's courtyard  you can see examples of how half-timbered houses  

were constructed frames walls and all we then  continued our walk through town for more examples  

of how the half-timbered construction style  evolved to have multiple protruding levels  

and more elaborate design elements this town  has seriously some of the most interesting  

architecture we've seen so if you're into that  sort of thing it's well worth joining a guided  

tour because you learn about all the little  details that would otherwise go unnoticed

then it was time for lunch and you guys know  how much we enjoy a good meal we ended up eating  

at a restaurant in the market square where we  were pleasantly surprised by the large portions  

and hearty cuisine all right guys lunch time is  here we found a lovely restaurant just randomly  

walking around and ordered two monster meals i got  three pork medallions and a creamy mushroom sauce  

and also some fried potatoes with bacon this is a  monster dish this is like our main meal of the day  

so hmm tasty it's so good yeah perfect  meal for a cold day like today seriously  

and then the potatoes bacon marvelous  samuel i don't know what i got myself  

into i ordered the bears platter and it's  three big pieces of meat giant thing of chicken  

we've got pork and we got beef that's what the  bear eats yeah it's all the bear eats huh and  

underneath apparently the bear has a lot of  beans as well string beans and bacon bits  

oh that's a hungry bear and then i have fried  potatoes with onions and bacon bits as well

a real carnivores meal huh this is a super  carnivore meal i got my work cut out to eat all  

this we made it we're here we checked in yes this  time worked we we tried to check in at like what  

nine in the morning no way your room's not ready  yet yeah of course not looks beautiful spacious  

elegant guys i i need i do need a little bit of a  power nap we've been up since four so that's the  

plan so yeah there you have it that is the room  home sweet home for one night this has been a  

pretty a pretty fast travel pace i would say like  we are switching destinations and switching hotels  

every single night basically except for hamburg  we've been moving quick but i mean i love the look  

of this room beige neutral tones we need a power  nap because like i mentioned we were up at 4 am  

today so quick power nap maybe a coffee then we'll  go explore the town a bit more so see you in a bit

that afternoon we visited the Lyonel Feininger  gallery which bears the name of the german  

american painter Lyonel Feininger who was born in  new york city but traveled to germany at age 16  

to study art he was a leader in the expressionist  movement and this museum houses many of his works  

we couldn't actually film  any art inside the museums  

because copyrights but if you enjoy art  this gallery is well worth the visit

audrey's favorite time tea time or shall we  say coffee time since we were up at 4 a.m today  

we figured a mid-afternoon cappuccino  really wouldn't hurt us oh it will not  

bit of a necessity nice and frothy yeah so we  came to cafe vincent super well known for their  

cheesecakes like there was actually a lineup let's  call that lineup worthy cheesecake yes yeah and  

we're about to see if it is i'm sure guys yeah i'm  sure it is how's that it's very good it's gigantic  

like just wait a second this is the  mascarpone and some type of wild berry wow  

they had loads of different flavors there  was mango they had blueberries wild berries  

they had lemon and thyme but i wasn't sure how  adventurous you were feeling yeah berries sound  

good this time yeah berries are good yeah so  creamy so creamy oh i can't wait to try it

i would like to just point out that sam nearly  went headfirst into a river trying to get the  

shot we just silky smooth b-roll the things  you do anyways so we're going for a little walk  

at brule park so this park bears the name of my  favorite german actor do you remember his name  

bruhl okay yes that is his last name but you know  the eyes no i have no idea i have no idea daniel  

daniel brewer from goodbye london have  you watched that one no i've we've meant  

to watch that together but we just had to find  my favorite german film if you haven't seen it  

go watch it it's it's a masterpiece anywho's  we're going around the park this is a beautiful  

area because there are so many villas like just  beautiful beautiful german mansions yeah oh my  

built with the absolute like fortitude like and  the thing about this park that i'm really enjoying  

if i can follow the path you're going  is it has it's it's a forest park yeah  

it feels like you're really out of nature it  doesn't feel overly manicured and it's a nice  

little nature escape from the from the  old historic center and there you have it

and that concludes our day visiting the medieval  town of Quedlinburg Germany we hope you enjoyed  

all the half-timbered buildings rooftop views  tasty meals and everything else in between  

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next episode where it's all about the vineyards  and the wine in sally and strut see you then