| The best introduction to it is the excellent 90minute | | | | near the hotel. |
| guided walking tour offered by the City tourist | | | | From here, you only have to cross a moatlike arm of |
| information office. The office, well stocked with maps | | | | the Weser to get to the Altstadt, at Am Wall, the |
| and booklets, is in a pavilion on Bahnhofsplatz, directly | | | | northern perimeter of the old semicircular city |
| opposite the Hauptbahnhof, only a few minutes' walk | | | | fortifications, by the Herdentor bridge at the site of one |
| northeast of the Altstadt. The daily tour, which starts | | | | of Bremen's eight medieval gates. |
| from the office at 2:30 P.M. (May through October), is | | | | The Altsadt Bremen |
| also available in English. | | | | The first stop after that, in the Altstadt proper, is the |
| Personal injury claims | | | | narrow Sogestrasse (in old local dialect, Sow Street). |
| Next to the station to the northwest is Bremen's noted | | | | Butchers used to keep their pigs on the street in the |
| Ubersee Museum (Overseas Museum), housing | | | | Middle Ages, and the practice is commemorated by a |
| collections of ethnological artifacts from the South | | | | bronze swineherd with sows and piglets at the street's |
| Seas, Australia, South and East Asia, Africa, and the | | | | corner with Knochenhauerstrasse, which runs |
| Americas as well as the BremenWeser region. The | | | | east-west here. |
| hotels Zur Post and Mercure Columbus, on | | | | A two-block walk south along Sogestrasse brings you |
| Bahnhofsplatz, are handy to the station, the museum, | | | | to the 13thcentury Liebfrauenkirche (Church of Our |
| and the tourist office. Behind the station to the | | | | Lady). The former church of the city council, it has |
| northeast is the spacious Burgerpark, where the Park | | | | some fine medieval murals and stainedglass windows. |
| Hotel, one of Bremen's top accommodations, is | | | | Another short stroll in the same direction takes you into |
| located. Horsedrawn carriages tour the park on | | | | the Marktplatz (no longer used as a market), with its |
| Sundays at 11 :00 A.M. and Wednesdays at 3:00 and | | | | statue of Roland standing guard next to the streetcar |
| 4:00 P.M., leaving from the Marcusbrunnen (fountain) | | | | line outside the Rathaus. |