Main Sights
- Town Hall, built in 1620 in Renaissance style with the Goldener Saal
- Perlachturm, a bell tower built in 989
- Fuggerei (see above)
- Bishop's Residence, built about 1750 in order to replace the older bishop's palace; today the administrative seat of Swabia
- Cathedral, founded in the 9th century
- Schaezlerpalais, a Rococo mansion (1765)
- St. Ulrich and St. Afra—one church is Roman Catholic, the other Lutheran, the duality being a result of the Peace of Augsburg concluded in 1555 between Catholics and Protestants
- Mozart Haus Augsburg (where composer father Leopold Mozart was born and Mozart visited it several times)
- Augsburger Puppenkiste, a puppet theatre
- Eiskanal, the world's first artificial whitewater course (venue for the whitewater events of the 1972 Munich Olympics)
- Dorint Hotel Tower
- Childhood home of Bertolt Brecht
- The Augsburg Botanical Gardens (Botanischer Garten Augsburg)
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And oh, not the valleys of Hall
Avail: I am fain for to water the plain.
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