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(Tribune Media Services) — Surrounded by vineyards and filled with atmospheric wine-gardens, this small, tourist-friendly town (just 90 minutes by train from Frankfurt) is easy to navigate by foot or streetcar. Today, 25,000 of its 130,000 residents are students — making the town feel young and very alive.
Standing on Wurzburg’s venerable bridge — the second oldest in Germany — I squint up at a statue of the town’s favorite saint, an Irish monk named Killian. I wonder why he still has his head on. Killian was one of three Irish missionary monks who dropped by in A.D. 686 to Christianize the local barbarians. Overreacting, inhospitable locals beheaded them. Later their relics were planted in the town’s church, putting Wurzburg on the pilgrimage map.
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