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Extract from the Bayreuth Travel Guides:
The capital of Upper Franconia, polished and respectable
BAYREUTH
, which lies some 80km northeast of Nrnberg, enjoys its reputation as one of the great cultural centres of Europe. Except for the five-week festival period beginning in the second half of July, it's a quiet provincial town, which was something of a late developer, only coming to prominence in 1603 when it displaced nearby Kulmbach as the seat of the second of the Hohenzollerns' Franconian principalities. Its subsequent fame is due to a series of imported creative spirits, two of whom played defining roles. The first of these was
Wilhelmine of Prussia
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