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Extract from the Neuburg an der Donau Travel Guides:
NEUBURG AN DER DONAU
, 22km upstream from Ingolstadt on the rail line to Ulm, makes an enjoyable afternoon's outing or restful overnight stop. Perched on a chalk promontory overlooking the Danube, it was a strategic trading post in Roman times, but was thereafter an insignificant village until 1505, when it became the capital of the new Wittelsbach principality of Pfalz-Neuburg. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was developed into a proud Residenzstadt of elegant buildings, leafy squares and dreamy cobblestoned streets, presenting a Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque architectural mix which has no counterpart elsewhere in...
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