Oberammergau, Germany

Oberammergau water-colour facades

Oberammergau's world famous Passion Play: Oberammergau, a small colourful alpine town in Germany is inundated by visitors once every ten years.  This town is world famous for its Passion Play, a play about the "Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ". Oberammergau began out of a desperate promise that the people made if their village were spared from extinction.  In the middle of the Thirty Years' War from 1618 - 1648 compounded by the plague of 1632 the entire village was … [Read more...]