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until secularisation in 1802, 45-minute guided tours of Neue Residenz take in some 40
stuccoed rooms crammed with furniture and tapestries from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The palace also hosts a small branch of the
Bayerische Staatsgalerie
(Bavarian State
Gallery). Its strengths are in medieval, Renaissance and baroque paintings, with works by
Anthony Van Dyck, Hans Baldung Grien and Cranach the Elder.
The third attraction here is the small but exquisite baroque
Rosengarten
(Rose
Garden), from where the Altstadt's sea of red rooftops spread out below.
MUSEUM
Fränkisches Brauereimuseum
( 530 16;
www.brauereimuseum.de
; Michaelsberg 10f; adult/concession €3/2.50;
1-5pm Wed-Fri, 11am-5pm Sat & Sun Apr-Oct)
Located next to the Kloster St Michael,
this comprehensive brewery museum exhibits heaps of period mashing, boiling and bot-
tling implements, as well as everything to do with local suds, such as beer mats, tankards,
enamel beer signs and lots of photos and documentation. If the displays have left you dry
mouthed, quench your thirst in the small pub.
Kloster St Michael
(Franziskanergasse 2; 9am-6pm)
Above Domplatz, at the top of Michaelsberg, is the
Benedictine Kloster St Michael, a former monastery and now an aged people's home. The
monastery
church
is a must-see, both for its baroque art and the meticulous depictions of
nearly 600 medicinal plants and flowers on the vaulted ceiling. The mani cured garden
terrace boasts a splendid city panorama.
MONASTERY
KLEIN VENEDIG
A row of diddy, half-timbered cottages once inhabited by fishermen and their families makes up
Regnitz' east bank between Markusbrücke and Untere Brücke. The little homes balance on poles
set into the water and are fronted by tiny gardens and terraces (wholly unlike Venice, but who
