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Burg Hohenwerfen
Slung high on a wooded clifftop and cowering beneath the majestic peaks of the Tennengebirge range, Burg Hohenwerfen is visible from afar. For 900 years this fortress has kept watch over the Salzach Valley, its current appearance dating to 1570. The big draw is the far-reaching vi
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Maximilianstrasse
Roman troops and medieval emperors once paraded down ‘Via Triumphalis’. Now known as Maximilianstrasse, Speyer’s pedestrian-only shopping precinct is 800m long, linking the Dom with the 55m-high, 13th-century Altpörtel , the city’s western gate and the only remaining part of the to
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Bamberger Dom
Beneath the quartet of spires, Bamberg’s cathedral is packed with artistic treasures, most famously the lifesize equestrian statue of the Bamberger Reiter (Bamberg Horseman), whose true identity remains a mystery. It overlooks the tomb of cathedral founders , Emperor Heinrich II an
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Feldherrnhalle
Corking up Odeonsplatz southern side is Friedrich von Gärnters Feldherrnhalle, modelled on the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. The structure pays homage to the Bavarian army and positively drips with testosterone; check out the statues of General Johann Tilly, who kicked the Swedes o
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Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Situated 6.5km west of Kassel HBF station, and 3km west of Kassel Wilhelmshöhe station, in the enchanting Habichtswald nature park, this spectacular baroque parkland takes its name from Schloss Wilhelmshöhe , the late 18th-century palace situated inside the expanse. You can spend a
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Märkisches Museum
This old-school history museum is a rewarding stop for anyone keen on learning how the medieval trading village of Berlin-Cölln evolved into today’s metropolis. The exhibits take you on a virtual walk through the citys streets and quarters, from the medieval Klosterviertel to the s
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Hundertwasserschule
How would you like to study grammar and algebra in a building where trees sprout from the windows and gilded onion domes balance above a rooftop garden? This fantastical environment is everyday reality for the lucky pupils of Wittenberg’s Hundertwasserschule. Its the penultimate wo
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Schloss Ortenburg
Schloss Ortenburg sits on a strategic cliff-top spot thats been occupied by a series of castles since the 7th century. You enter the complex through its most interesting structure, the late-Gothic Matthiasturm (Matthias Tower), named for the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus who rul
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Dom St Stephan
Theres been a church here since the late 5th century, but what you see today is much younger thanks to the fire of 1662, which ravaged much of the medieval town, including the cathedral. The rebuilding job went to a team of Italians, notably the architect Carlo Lurago and the stucc
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Computerspielemuseum
No matter if you grew up with PacMan, World of Warcraft or no games at all, this well-curated museum takes you on a fascinating trip down computer-game memory lane while putting the industrys evolution into historical and cultural context. Colourful and engaging, it features intera
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Schloss Glienicke
Glienicke Palace is the result of a rich royal kid travelling to Italy and falling in love with the country. Prince Carl of Prussia (1801–83) was only 21 when he returned to Berlin giddy with dreams of building his own Italian villa, so he hired starchitect du jour Karl Friedrich S
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Schloss Mirabell
Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich built this splendid palace in 1606 to impress his beloved mistress Salome Alt. It must have done the trick because she went on to bear the archbishop some 15 children; sources disagree on the exact number – poor Wolf was presumably too distracted by
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Schloss & Park Pillnitz
Baroque has gone exotic at Schloss Pillnitz, a delightful pleasure palace, festooned with fanciful Chinese flourishes. This is where the Saxon rulers once lived it up during long hot Dresden summers. Explore the wonderful gardens, then study the history of the palace and life at co
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Festung Königstein
Festung Königstein is the largest intact fortress in Germany, and so imposing and formidable that no-one in history has ever even bothered to attack it, let along conquered it. Begun in the 13th century, it was repeatedly enlarged and is now a veritable textbook of military archite
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Deutsch
In the waning days of WWII, this building served as the headquarters of the Soviet army where, on 8 May 1945, the war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht. This exhibit commemorates this fateful day and documents the events leading up to it from both th
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Königssee
Crossing the serenely picturesque, emerald-green Königssee makes for some unforgettable memories and once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunities. Cradled by steep mountain walls some 5km south of Berchtesgaden, the emerald-green Königssee is Germany’s highest lake (603m), with drinkably
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Albrechtsburg
Lording it over Meissen, the 15th-century Albrechtsburg was the first German castle constructed for residential purposes, but is more famous as the birthplace of European porcelain. An exhibit on the 2nd floor chronicles how it all began; a nifty touch terminal even lets you invent
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Freie Universität Berlin
The Free University was founded in 1948 in reaction to the growing restrictions on academic freedoms imposed on students and faculty at the Humboldt University, then in the Soviet sector. Lectures started in the spring of 1949 and were initially held in empty villas throughout Dahl
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Sowjetisches Ehrenmal Treptow
At the heart of Treptower Park, the gargantuan Soviet War Memorial (1949) looms above the graves of 5000 Soviet soldiers killed in the Battle of Berlin, a bombastic but sobering testament to the immensity of the country’s wartime losses. To reach the memorial from the S-Bahn statio
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Museum Brandhorst
A big, bold and aptly abstract building, clad entirely in vividly multihued ceramic tubes, the Brandhorst jostled its way into the Munich Kunstareal in a punk blaze of colour mid-2009. Its walls, its floor and occasionally its ceiling provide space for some of the most challenging
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