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Information for tourists

Opening times and admission charges

Opening times

April-October: 9 am-6 pm (last entry: 5.30 pm)
November-March: 10 am-4.30 pm (last entry: 4 pm)
open daily
Public holidays: the Residenz is closed on 1 January, Shrove Tuesday and 24, 25 and 31 December.

The admission charge includes a guided tour of the main rooms of the Residenz. Guided tours in German are given every half hour to every hour and half hour (last tour 1 hour before closing time), tours in English take place daily at 11am and 3pm, from April to October also at 4.30pm.

You are also welcome to go round the Würzburg Residenz on your own; the Southern Imperial Apartments with the Mirror Cabinet can however only be visited by participating in a guided tour.

The Court Garden is open until dusk.

The Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung Würzburg (Würzburg Palace and Garden Administrative Office) also arranges guided tours outside opening times and tours of the Court Garden on request.

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Admission charges 2012 

7.50 euros regular
6.50 euros reduced

Court garden: free

With one of our annual season tickets or 14-days-tickets you have free entry to over forty of the most beautiful sights in Bavaria!

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Information for the disabled

The Residenz is accessible for wheelchairs; there is a lift.

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Martin-von-Wagner-Museum of the University of Würzburg

Also in the south block of the Würzburg Residenz, in addition to the Court Chapel, is the Martin-von-Wagner Museum ( www.uni-wuerzburg.de/museum) with its antiquities collection, art gallery and graphic arts collection (the museum has a separate entrance).

Picture on the left: Central part of the triptych by Maestro del Bambino Vispo, Florence, c. 1410 (section)

 

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