Heidelberg, Germany: Marktplatz

This square in Heidelberg certainly

knows how to draw a crowd. It's filled with tourists and residents and shoppers and all sorts of other things. A market takes place there each Saturday, and restaurants are ready to feed the people who visit.

The square is dominated by the Church of the Holy Spirit. Construction of the facility is said to have lasted about 150 years. The tower was finally finished early in the 1500s, and this is the third building on the site. At one point, Catholics and Protestants shared the building and put up a partition so that services for both faiths could take place at the same time. Finally, the Protestants took the place over.

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