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Landshut
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One of Germany's most visually striking towns,
LANDSHUT
is set below wooded hills on the banks of the Isar 70km northeast of Munich. The Wittelsbachs established it as their main seat at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and it consistently outshone Munich, even when the latter became capital of the separate duchy of Upper Bavaria. When the local dukes died out in 1503 and Bavaria became a united province again, it lost its status as a capital, but nonetheless flourished as the second residence. However, it went into decline as a result of the Thirty Years War, never to recover. As a result, its showpiece centre was subject to few later alterations and remains wonderfully evocative of its fifteenth- and sixteenth-century heyday. Nowadays, it is the perfect backdrop for Germany's largest costumed festival, the Landshut Wedding (
Landshuter Hochzeit
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