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Marksburg Castle opens daily throughout the year.
The castle only can be visited in the course of a guided tour taking about 50 minutes. Visitors will be shown round by guides who recount the history of the fortress and describe what life was like in such castles during the Middle Ages. Foreign groups can have a guided tour in English, French or Japanese (see below).
Individual foreign visitors can follow the regular guided tour with an information sheet in their own language.
Periodical English guided tours for individual visitors start every day at 12 and 4 o’clock. (Please note that this schedule is subject to change on short notice).
For an English guided tour off that times of day you should call our visitor service: +49-2627-206, possibly you can join a group of English speaking people.

Hours of Operation:

• from 20^th March   to  1^st November 2010  (summer seasons): 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (first and last admission, guided tours start every 15 or 20 minutes)

•  from 3^rd November 2009 to 19^th March 2010 (winter season):
  11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (first and last admission, guided tours on the hour)

•  The castle is closed only on December 24th and 25th.

Guided tours for groups in English, French or Japanese (more than 20 people) 
are asked to give reasonable advance notice of their arrival.
Phone: 0049-2627-206, Fax 0049-2627-8866.

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Concerning the challenging terrain the castle is for disabled persons not accessible.
Baby carriages can be parked behind the Fox Gate for the length of the guided tour if the    children can be carried around or can walk for their own.
Compliant dogs are allowed to attend the tour.

Please understand that it's prohibited to eat, drink and - of particular importance - smoke during the guided tour.

In our Souvenir Shop you will find a wide choice of:

• illustrated books
• castle literature
• aesthetic accessory
• toys
• children's books
• knight's armours
• embellishment
• textiles
• picture postcards
• souvenirs

Catering
You can take snacks, cold drinks, coffee, tea, ice cream, cakes, soups, sausages and stew at our "Burgschänke" (Castle Inn). To sit on the restaurant terrace, with its magnificent views of the Rhine Valley, is an experience to remember!

We can offer catering from light snacks to a complete meal. After consultation with our publican there is the opportunity to have parties, festivities and knight's banquets either in the romantic inn's hall or in the historic castle kitchen, prepared in the traditional fashion and served by staff in medieval costume, while minstrels or a bard is brightening the party.