Weißensee is a district of the beautiful city of Füssen, whose romantic old town has interesting sights and charming places to offer. To get to know the picturesque old town and its attractions and to get exciting background information about the sights, you can take a mobile city tour. We will explain to you below how this works.
In the Füssen old town, pretty medieval houses, remarkable sights and places steeped in history are lined up along winding streets. There really is something interesting to discover at every turn! It would of course be advantageous to have a local guide with you who would provide you with exciting background information about the buildings or places. However, your cell phone or MP3 player can easily take over this function. All you need other than one of these devices is a city map, which you can get from the Füssener Tourist Information at Kaiser-Maximilian-Platz. The approximately two kilometer long mobile phone city tour through the old town also starts there.
This special kind of city tour takes you to eleven sights or places where there are information boards with a telephone number. All you have to do is call these numbers to listen to two- to three-minute audio clips that provide you with interesting facts about each attraction. There are no costs whatsoever, apart from the charges for calls from cell phones to landlines. It's even easier to remove all audio contributions from the site in advance fuessen.tomis.mobi to load onto an MP3 player. You then select the relevant contribution on site and listen to it. iPhone owners can also use the mobile city tour as an app on their device. Simply search for the mobile phone city tour through the Füssen old town in the app store.
At the first stop at Kaiser-Maximilian-Platz, you will learn interesting facts about Füssen's city history from your mobile tour guide. From here you walk on to Schrannenplatz, where there is always a lot of activity, especially during the weekly market. The corresponding audio report tells you that this square was already a center of urban life in Füssen in earlier centuries. The third stop is the Franciscan monastery; On the terrace in front of the Franciscan Church of St. Stephan you can enjoy a fantastic view over the city. You then walk to the banks of the Lech and, while looking at the turquoise water, you can learn from your guide that the wild river was a very important trade connection in the Middle Ages. Past the Holy Spirit Hospital Church with its magnificent facade, the tour continues to the High Castle, Füssen's most notable attraction. Within this late Gothic castle complex there are artistically decorated interiors and a branch gallery of the Bavarian State Painting Collections.
The St. Mang Basilica, the Anna Chapel and the St. Mang Monastery are further stops on this city tour that provide interesting impressions. You will then reach the so-called bread market, the old center of the city. The Lautenmacher fountain is located here, one of the many artistically designed fountains Füssen. The figure on the Lautenmacherbrunnen shows one of the most famous lute makers Füssen, which is considered the cradle of European lute and violin making. This eventful tour ends in Reichenstrasse in a small square where the monument to St. Magnus, the Füssener city patron.
The cell phone city tour through Füssen's old town promises a lot of fun and provides a lot of useful background information about the sights here. This tour is not to be missed when vacationing in Weißensee!
