Absolutely gorgeous . . . but I can't quite give the experience 5 stars because of two reasons: #1 no pictures are allowed inside. #2 the tour guide was not very animated and it even though he had lots of facts, it came across as if he read a script. But the rooms really are beautiful and the price is reasonable.
Lovely place with lovely people. That chap Ernst II sure knows how to treat guests!
Awesome
Wenn man schon einmal in Coburg ist sollte man sich die Ehrenburg mal angesehen haben.
I took one of the guided tours that run every hour and absolutely loved the place! Our tour guide was very professional and humorous. I totally recommend this place to everybody, but the language of a tour was German. Not sure if they do an English version.
Visitabile solo con visita guidata (ogni ora, inglese e tedesco), il castello offre una serie di ambienti affascinanti ricchi di decorazioni a stucco. Da notare in particolare la sala dei cavalieri con i 28 atlanti che sorreggono il soffitto con le braccia. Ma tutte le sale sono a loro modo degne di nota in questo ambiente ricchissimo di arte e di storia.
The Ehrenburg Palace was the site of an 1860 meeting between Queen Victoria and Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. I have already written about the Emperor on this website in an item entitled “The Emperor rides the Subway”. Coburg is a picturesque little town sitting astride the Itz River. It is easy to see why Queen Victoria loved it so much that she made six visits here from England. That may appear no big deal today but, before the invention of the airplane and the automobile and before widespread availability of railway tracks, it involved many days of uncomfortably bumping through Europe in a horse drawn carriage. The Queen is reported to have declared that, if she were not who she was, Coburg would have been her real home but that she would always consider it as her second home. That leads us to the question of who was she?
Great place, very impressive and historical.