The Venice of Germany - Bamberg

Bamberg is a beautiful, medieval town - uneven cobblestoned streets, crooked buildings and colourful flower boxes in every window. They call Bamberg the Venice of Germany but really it has a river that runs through it and lots of bridges rather than canals - I mean Birmingham has more canals!

Our guide showed us through - surprise surprise - another church and inside was a statue of a man on a horse. She said it was very famous and everyon in Bamberg knows about the statue. However, nobody knows it is on the horse nor the significance of the statue.... she said, quite mysteriously, "It remains a secret to today" - Surely it ceases to be a secret if nobody knows it???