Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 543 44; Friedrichstrasse 15; pizzas from €4.30)
The best pizza in town is found at
this hole in the wall. A checklist menu lets you choose your own toppings and, voila, you
can name your creation.
Underground
( 633 47; Von-Römer-Strasse 15; from 7pm Tue-Sun Sep-May, Mon-Sun Jun-Aug)
Squeezed into a cellar space shaped like a London Underground train, and decked out as
such with hard seats and Tube logos, this bar-cafe has a gay clientele, though the crowd's
usually as mixed as the cocktails.
BAR
Information
Bayreuth Card
(72hr €11.50)
Good for unlimited trips on city buses, museum entry and
a two-hour guided city walk (in German).
Post Office
(Hauptbahnhof)
Sparkasse
(Opernstrasse 12)
Tourist Office
( 885 748;
www.bayreuth-tourismus.de
; Opernstrasse 22; 9am-7pm
Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm Sat year-round, plus 10am-2pm Sun May-Oct)
Has a train ticket book-
ing desk and a worthwhile gift shop.
Getting There & Away
Most rail journeys between Bayreuth and other towns in Bavaria require a change in
Nuremberg:
Munich
Change in Nuremberg; €65, 2½ hours, hourly
Nuremberg
€19, one hour, hourly
Regensburg
Change in Nuremberg; €26 to €41, 2¼ hours, hourly
RICHARD WAGNER
With the backing of King Ludwig II, Richard Wagner (1813-83), the gifted, Leipzig-born com-
poser and notoriously poor manager of money, turned Bayreuth into a mecca of opera and high-
minded excess. Bayreuth profited from its luck and, it seems, is ever grateful.
