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Gotha’s picturesque city center prides itself with its many architectural gems and has much to offer. Water art, Cranach house, Margarethen church, an Augustinian monastery, just to name a few highlights. You learn about the most important sights with the guides of the city of Gotha.
Public tours
Saturday: 11:00 a.m
April – October: additionally Wednesday & Sunday, 11.00 a.m
Meeting point: Schellenbrunnen, Unterer Hauptmarkt
Price: €8.00 adults, €4.00 children up to 16 years (up to 6 years free)
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Guided tours through the Friedenstein Palace
The largest early-baroque palace complex brings to life the past centuries. In the middle of the beautiful parks is the imposing palace with its diverse rooms, the baroque Ekhof theater, the library, and the palace chapel, as well as the collections of art, nature, and history and it has remained almost unchanged. Go with the guides on a journey into the past.
Price up to 30 persons: € 60.00 (plus admission, is to be paid separately at the palace box office)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Guided tours of the Ducal Museum
Besides one of the oldest Egyptian collections in Europe, you can discover here a Chinese cabinet, precious Japanese lacquer art, sculptures from Houdon and de Vries, as well as rich paintings by Cranach, Rubens, and C.D. Friedrich among others.
Price up to 30 persons: € 60.00 (plus admission, to be paid separately at the museum cashier)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Guided tours through the Casemates
Friedenstein Palace is surrounded by one of the strongest baroque fortifications in central Germany. You explore on an underground tour of some 300 meters the embrasure chambers, rifle galleries, back defenses and much more.
Price up to 10 persons: € 60.00
Price from 11 persons: € 6.00 per person.
Round tour “when the Duchess chats…”
Walk with the Duchess through the residence city and the park. Listen to illustrious stories and find out details about the life at court and in the townhouses, about her husband and her family.
Price up to 20 persons: from € 100.00
Price from 21 persons: from € 5.00
Duration: 1.5 hours
Round tour with the quirky Duke Emil August
Walk with the ardent admirer of Napoleon on a fun-filled tour and learn how the “teutsche Fürstenstaat” (German princely state) in Gotha has evolved and why the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha originated from Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Price up to 20 persons: from € 100.00
Price from 21 persons: from € 5.00
Duration: 1.5 hours
The mistress of the Duke breaks her silence
Let the baroness tell you not only spicy details from her life but get to know as well the unspeakable from the life of the dukes.
Price up to 20 persons: from € 100.00
Price from 21 persons: from € 5.00
Duration: 1.5 hours