The Royal heritage is still preserved here in Coburg today, especially at the palace of Ehrenburg, with its fine state apartments, and beautifully landscaped parks and gardens.

Coburg itself is an idyllic small town with many stylishly restored Franconian gabled houses and medieval alleyways.

Just outside Coburg lies one of its greatest attractions. Here, towering above the town, is the Veste, the largest fortified castle in Southern Germany. Martin Luther translated much of the Bible here, thereby creating the basis of modern German. The castle also houses a world famous copper-plate engraving collection, the biggest collection of arms in Germany and one of the largest and finest collections of glass in Europe.