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Bavarian Forest National Park
A paradise for outdoor fiends, the Bavarian Forest National Park extends for around 24,250 hectares along the Czech border, from Bayerisch Eisenstein in the north to Finsterau in the south. Its thick forest, most of it mountain spruce, is criss-crossed by hundreds of kilometres of
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Museum für Naturkunde
Fossils and minerals don’t quicken your pulse? Well, how about the worlds largest mounted dino skeleton? The 13m-high Brachiosaurus branchai is joined by a dozen other Jurassic buddies, some of which are brought to virtual flesh-and-bone life with the help of clever ‘Juraskopes’. O
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Kolumba
Art, history, architecture and spirituality form a harmonious tapestry in this spectacular collection of religious treasures of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Called Kolumba, the building encases the ruins of the late-Gothic church of St Kolumba, its layers of foundations going back t
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Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum
This Charité Hospital–run museum chronicles 300 years of medical history in an anatomical theatre, a pathologists dissection room, a laboratory and a historical patients ward. The heart of the exhibit, though, is a grisly pathology collection thats essentially a 3D medical textbook
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Walhalla
Modelled on the Parthenon in Athens, the Walhalla is a breathtaking Ludwig I monument dedicated to the giants of Germanic thought and deed. Marble steps seem to lead up forever from the banks of the Danube to this dazzling marble hall, with a gallery of 127 heroes in marble. The c
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Schloss Hohenschwangau
King Ludwig II grew up at the sun-yellow Schloss Hohenschwangau and later enjoyed summers here until his death in 1886. His father, Maximilian II, built this palace in a neo-Gothic style atop 12th-century ruins left by Schwangau knights. Far less showy than Neuschwanstein, Hohensch
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Stadtkirche Wittenberg
The Stadt- und Pfarrkirche St Marien (Stadtkirche Wittenberg) was where Martin Luther’s ecumenical revolution began, with the world’s first Protestant worship services in 1521. It was also here that Luther preached his famous Lectern sermons in 1522, and where he married ex-nun Kat
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Erzabtei St Peter
A Frankish missionary named Rupert founded this abbey church and monastery in around 700, making it the oldest in the German-speaking world. Though a vaulted Romanesque portal remains, today’s church is overwhelmingly baroque, with rococo stucco, statues – including one of archange
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Mainau
Jutting out over the lake and bursting with flowers, the lusciously green islet of Mainau is a 45-hectare Mediterranean garden dreamed up by the Bernadotte family, relatives of the royal house of Sweden.Around two million visitors flock here every year to admire sparkly lake and mo
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Eagles Nest
The Eagles Nest was built as a mountaintop retreat for Hitler, and gifted to him on his 50th-birthday. It took some 3000 workers only two years to carve the precipitous 6km-long mountain road, cut a 124m-long tunnel and a brass-panelled lift through the rock, and build the lodge it
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Sammlung Scharf
This gallery in the 19th-century former royal stables across from Schloss Charlottenburg showcases a complete survey of surrealist art, with large bodies of work by René Magritte and Max Ernst alongside dreamscapes by Dalí and Dubuffet. Standouts among their 18th-century forerunner
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Prinzessinnengarten
Urban gardening is taking root all over the world, and in Berlin a site on Moritzplatz - abandoned for over 60 years - has been transformed into one of these delightful oases, the Princess Gardens. In 2009, founders Robert Shaw and Marco Clausen inspired a small army of volunteers
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Meisterhäuser
You’ll find the three remaining Meisterhäuser on leafy Ebertallee, a 15-minute walk west of the Hauptbahnhof. The leading lights of the Bauhaus movement lived together as neighbours in these white cubist structures that exemplify the Bauhaus aim of ‘design for living’ in a modern i
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Varusschlacht Museum & Park Kalkriese
You dont need to be a history buff (or even a fan of Russell Crowe in Gladiator ) to come to this museum and park, although by the time you leave youll have a fine idea about how rebellious Germanic tribes won a major victory over their Roman masters somewhere in the Osnabrück regi
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Untersberg
Rising above Salzburg and straddling the German border is the rugged 1853m peak of Untersberg. Spectacular views of the city, the Rositten Valley and the Tyrolean, Salzburg and Bavarian alpine ranges unfold from the summit. The mountain is a magnet to local skiers in winter, and hi
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Oberbaumbrücke
With its jaunty towers and turrets, crenellated walls and arched walkways, the Oberbaumbrücke (1896) gets our nod for being Berlin’s prettiest bridge. Linking Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain across the Spree, it smoothly integrates a steel middle section by Spanish bridgemeister Santi
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Gedenkstätte Plötzensee
Plötzensee was one of the Berlins most notorious prisons during the Third Reich. Some 3000 people were executed here, most of them members of the Nazi resistance. The room where the beheadings and hangings took place is now a hauntingly simple memorial: only a steel bar with eight
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Liechtensteinklamm
One of the deepest and longest ravines in the Alps, the Liechtensteinklamm is off the beaten track but well worth the detour. The jaw-dropping chasm was carved out during the last Ice Age and takes its name from Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, who poured plenty of money into ma
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Technik Museum
At this technology extravaganza 1km south of the Kaiserdom across the A61 highway, you can climb aboard a Boeing 747-230 (and wonder how on earth they got the aircraft here, much less mounted it 28m off the ground), a 1960s U-boat that’s claustrophobic even on dry land, and a mammo
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Reichenau
In AD 724 a missionary named Pirmin founded a Benedictine monastery on Reichenau, a 4.5km-by-1.5km island (Lake Constance’s largest) about 11km west of Konstanz. During its heyday, from 820 to 1050, the so-called Reichenauer School produced stunning illuminated manuscripts and vivi
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