Coburg's old town is compact enough to walk in an afternoon, centred on the Marktplatz and the streets immediately around it. The architectural mix is excellent — half-timbered houses from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries stand alongside solid Baroque townhouses from the eighteenth, with almost none of the post-war reconstruction that damaged so many German town centres. Coburg was spared major bombing damage in 1945 and surrendered to American forces without a fight, so the streetscape is largely intact.
The best walking is along Herrngasse, the main street running north from the market, and the lanes between the market and the church of St. Moriz. Several of the old buildings have been converted into cafes, wine bars, and shops. The town hall on the market square, with its multiple stepped gables, is itself worth examining closely — a fine example of Franconian Renaissance civic architecture.