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 Car Hire & Driving in Nuremberg, GermanyWelcome to Nuremberg Car Hire, Germany; available at Nuremberg Airport.Nuremburg Car HireNuremberg is the second largest city in southern Germany after Munich. Once a city of medieval elegance, Nuremburg has the dubious distinction of being the ideological heart of the Third Reich. Nuremburg is an interesting mix of the quaint and the cosmopolitan to explore in your German hire car. Nuremberg’s Altstadt is a medieval walled city with plenty to investigate in your German hire car. The River Pegnitz divides Nuremberg’s old town into its Sebald and Lorenz districts, named after the two main churches that you can visit in your German hire car while in this part of Nuremburg. The narrow streets and alleys of this part of Nuremberg are lined with timber framed houses which are ideal place to explore in your German hire car, together with the shops in this area of Nuremberg. If you are in Nuremburg in your German hire car during November you will Nuremburg Marktplatz is invaded for the famous Christkindlesmakt, a fantastic open air Christmas market that is definitely worth investigation in your German hire car if in Nuremburg at this time of year. Nuremberg’s three main churches, Fravenkirche, St Lorenz Kirche and St Sebaldus Kirche are prominent landmarks for you to visit in your German hire car while in Nuremberg which are adorned with magnificent works of art. Nuremberg is a place raised from the rubble of wartime destruction and restored to its Middle Ages heyday, giving you plenty to see in your German hire car while in Nuremberg. Nuremberg was Germany’ greatest surviving medieval city and, thanks to careful reconstruction, Nuremberg has recaptured much of its former appeal that can be seen in your German hire car while in Nuremberg. The highlights of Nuremberg that you should visit in your German hire car while in Nuremberg includes:- The Nuremberg Kaiserberg, Emperor’s castle, which you will find at Auf der Burg 13, 90403 Nuremberg in your German hire car, is an important imperial palace dating from the Middle Ages. Here you can visit the Romanesque double chapel in your German hire car; a two-level chapel with the upper floor reserved for the emperor and court and lower floor for the lower ranks. Also here is the Nuremberg Kaiserberg Museum, which you can visit in your German hire car and shows the construction history of the castle and its significance. You need to allow plenty of time in your German hire car for a visit to Nuremberg’s Germanishes Nationalmuseum, which is the largest and most important museum of Germanic art and culture, spanning from prehistory times to the present, and can be found at Kartausergasse 1, 90402 Nuremberg in your German hire car. Highlights at this museum in Nuremberg include great works by Albrecht Durer, the world’s earliest globe by Martin Behaim and a self portrait by Rembrandt, all worth investigation in your German hire car while in Nuremberg. It is hard to imagine Nuremberg nowadays without the famous works of art that decorated Nuremberg’s churches and fill Nuremberg’s streets and museums. The devastating bombing attacks during World War II levelled 90% of the architecture of Nuremberg’s old town, but thanks to the foresight of Nuremberg’s town official, much of Nuremberg’s artistic heritage survived at the Historischer Kunsterbunker, which you will find at Obere Schmiedgasse 52, 90403 Nuremberg in your German hire car. At the start of the war the former beer cellars beneath the castle hill in Nuremberg was transformed into a secure art shelter. Today the original installations can be seen on a tour while in Nuremberg in your German hire car. The Nuremberg Tiergarten, Zoo, can be found at AM Tiergarten 30, 90480 Nuremberg in your German hire car. This magnificent landscape zoological garden in Nuremberg with large open-air enclosures is a great place to leave your German hire car and go for a stroll in Nuremberg. There are animal houses, aviaries and a children’s zoo, plus the Adler miniature train, a model of Germany’s first railway, definitely worth a visit in your German hire car while in Nuremberg. For more advice on what to see and do in your German hire car while in Nuremberg, you can visit the Nuremberg Tourist Information Office, which you will find at Hauptmarkt 18, Nuremberg in your German hire car. The Nuremberg Tourist Information Office can also provide you with a Nuremberg Card, which gives you free admission to 34 of Nuremberg’s museums and sights that you can visit in your German hire car while in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg Card also entitles you to 10-20% off theatre tickets, so you can see a show while in Nuremberg in your German hire car. Nuremburg Airport Car HireNuremberg Airport lies 5km (3 miles) from Nuremberg in your hire car. Nuremberg Airport has 2 passenger terminals with an annual capacity of 3.5 million passengers through 41 check-in desks. Nuremberg Airport operates 24 hours a day. At Nuremburg Airport there are 6,000 long term parking spaces and plenty of short term parking spaces, should you need to leave your hire car at Nuremberg Airport. Nuremberg Airport has all the facilities you would expect, including a post office, bureau de change, restaurants, cafeterias, bars, VIP lounge, duty free shop, newsagent/tobacconist, gift shop, car rental services, first aid, baby/parent room, disabled access/facilities and a tourist help desk, which can provide assistance on what to see and do in your hire car while in Nuremberg. Southern Germany Car HireThe landscape of Southern Germany rises through densely-forested uplands to the Alpine backdrop of Bodensee, Germany’s largest lake, giving you some beautiful scenery to explore in your German hire car while in Southern Germany. Now and then you will find in your German hire car that the forest of Southern Germany clear to reveal sights such as Renensburg, a city with Germany’s greatest concentration of medieval buildings that you can visit in your German hire car; Baden-Baden, Germany’s oldest spa town, which is definitely worth exploring in your German hire car; romantic Heidelberg and the fairytale turrets of Scholoss Neuschwanstein which you also should take time to visit in your German hire car while in Southern Germany. In Southern Germany you can obtain a German hire car at Augsburg, Baden-Baden, Friedrichshafen, Heidelberg and Stuttgart. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip in your German hire car to these places in Southern Germany, visit our Augsburg Car Hire, Baden-Baden Car Hire, Friedrichshafen Car Hire, Heidelberg Car Hire or Stuttgart Car Hire links. The quality of the German road network makes driving a German hire car an excellent way to explore Germany. Although constant driving in your German hire car at high speed can be tiring, the Autobahn makes it possible to cover long distance across Germany in your German hire car in a short time, enabling you to move easily in your German hire car from one area of interest to another. A German hire car is the best way of getting around Germany if you aim to explore smaller towns, villages and the countryside of Germany. The best known feature of Germany’s extensive and well maintained road system that you can use in your German hire car is the Autobahn, the network of toll-free motorways covering the whole of Germany. However other roads like Bundesstrassen (national roads) and Landstrassen (main roads) are generally engineered to a high standard, with good surfaces and helpful signposting to help you navigate in your German hire car. While driving around Germany in your German hire car you will find that Autobahns are identified by a white letter ‘A’ and a number on a blue background and national roads by a black letter ‘B’ and number on a yellow background. The previously inadequate road network of eastern Germany has been transformed beyond recognition through the construction of motorways across eastern Germany, like the Ostseeautobahn, which links the Baltic coast to the rest of Germany, and through the improvement of other roads, which now make the roads of eastern Germany a pleasure to use in your German hire car. The downside to all this rebuilding across Germany is the density of traffic. In your German hire car, you may find that congestion can be acute in built-up areas and anywhere at holiday times. There are more than 100 named tourist routes that you can use in your German hire car which criss-cross Germany. Some, such as stretches of the Deutsche Alpenstrasse (German Alpine Road) that you can use in your German hire car, were purpose-built as scenic highways through Germany, although most are ordinary roads linking places of similar interest that you may wish to visit in your German hire car while. The best known of these routes that you can explore in your German hire car while is probably the Romantische Strasse (Romantic Road), which run from Wurzburg in northern Bavaria to Fussenn at the foot of the Alps and takes you through picturesque, historic towns in your German hire car on the way. Even if they are not designated as such, many of the roads you can use in your German hire car through Germany’s well-wooded uplands qualify as scenic routes, and extensions of the Autobahn networks that you can use in your German hire car also offer spectacular visual experience of the German countryside. Germans are fast drivers and determined popular resistance among motorists has prevented the adoption of a compulsory speed limit on Germany’s Autobahn. Although the speeds can be a little unnerving when driving in your German hire car, most drivers are aware of what they are doing and respect the rules of the road, having passed Germany’s particularly rigorous driving test. Once you have become used to conditions in your German hire car, you will find the behaviour of fellow road users fairly predictable. While exploring Germany in your German hire car it is useful to have knowledge of the rules of the roads. Germans drive on the right; on roads without yellow diamond priority signs, you should give way to traffic from the right in your German hire car; seat belts must be worn by all occupants of you German hire car; children under 12 must use an appropriate safety seat while travelling in your German hire car; you should halt at tram stops where there is no central reservation in your German hire car and allow passengers to cross the road; you should give way to trams and buses in your German hire car as they leave stops; ensure you use dipped headlights on your German hire car in poor visibility and in tunnels; do not use side lights when driving your German hire car; give way to pedestrians in your German hire car when turning at uncontrolled junctions (intersections); do not drink and drive you German hire car as the penalties are severe; traffic lights are supplemented by priority signs, which must be obeyed in your German hire car when the lights are not functioning e.g. at night or weekends; insulting behaviour to others while driving in your German hire car is an offence; fines can be imposed on the spot by police and your German hire car may be confiscated; finally a flashing light may indicating that you can turn right in your German hire car when traffic lights are red, but you must give way to traffic coming from the other direction.
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