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Altes Museum
A curtain of fluted columns gives way to the Pantheon-inspired rotunda of the grand neoclassical Old Museum, which harbours a prized antiquities collection. In the downstairs galleries, sculptures, vases, tomb reliefs and jewellery shed light on various facets of life in ancient Gr
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Karlsplatz
Karlsplatz and the medieval Karlstor form the western gateway to the Altstadt and the pedestrianised shopping precinct along Neuhauser Strasse and Kaufinger Strasse. The busy square was laid out in 1791 as an ego project of the highly unpopular Elector Karl Theodor. When he named
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Hotel Bellevue
Of Traben’s sinuous art-nouveau villas , the most seductive – and the only one open to the public – is the riverfront Hotel Bellevue, built in 1903 and easily recognised by its Champagne-bottle- shaped slate turret. The oak staircase in the lobby and the restaurants stained-glass w
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Kloster St Walburga
The final resting place of St Willibald’s sister, the Kloster St Walburga is a popular local pilgrimage destination. Every year between mid-October and late February, water oozes from Walburga’s relics in the underground chapel and drips down into a catchment. The nuns bottle dilut
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Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
This important exhibit on German Nazi resistance occupies the very rooms where high-ranking officers led by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg plotted the assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944. There’s a memorial in the courtyard where the main conspirators were shot righ
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Kyffhäuser Denkmal
The Kyffhäuser were once home to one of Germany’s largest medieval castles, the Reichsburg, built in the 12th century during the reign of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa. According to legend, Barbarossa lies in eternal sleep in the belly of the mountain. In the 19th century, Emperor W
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Fagus Werk
Designed and built by Bauhaus founder, Walter Gropius in 1911, this factory, which has been producing shoe lasts for over 100 years, is regarded as the first building in the world conforming to the modern architectural style. Given Unesco World Heritage status in 2011, sections of
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Gaisberg
A road snakes up to 1287m Gaisberg, where stellar views of the Salzburg Valley, Salzkammergut lakes, the limestone Tennengebirge range and neighbouring Bavaria await. The best way to appreciate all this is on the 5km around-the-mountain circuit trail. Salzburgers also head up here
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Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum
Located in the stately Alte Anatomie (Old Anatomy) at the university, this sometimes rather gory museum chronicles the evolution of medical science as well as the many (scary) instruments and techniques used. Unless you are, or have been, a medical student, pack a strong stomach fo
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Bullenhuser Damm Schule
During WWII, 20 Jewish children were chosen by Dr Josef Mengele at Auschwitz and sent to Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg for medical experiments. In 1945, with the German war effort collapsing, the children and their adult minders (other prisoners) were brought to this o
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Schloss Benrath
Elector Carl Theodor was a man of deep pockets and good taste, as reflected in his vast and exquisite pleasure palace and gardens, where he came to relax and frolic. Designed by Frenchman Nicolas de Pigage, the three-winged palace centres on the Corps de Logis (adult/child €9/3), t
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Funkturm
The filigree Funkturm, next to the trade-fair grounds, soars 129m high (146m with antenna) and looks especially pretty when illumated at night. From the viewing platform at 126m or the restaurant at 55m you can enjoy sweeping views of the Grunewald forest and the western city. The
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Museum der Bayerischen Könige
Palace-fatigued visitors often head straight for the bus stop, coach park or nearest beer after a tour of the castles, most overlooking this worthwhile museum, installed in a former lakeside hotel 400m from the castle ticket office (heading towards Alpsee lake). The architecturally
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Kröpeliner Strasse & Universitätsplatz
Kröpeliner Strasse, a broad, shop-filled, cobblestone pedestrian mall lined with 15th- and 16th-century burghers’ houses, runs from Neuer Markt west to Kröpeliner Tor.At the centre of the mall is Universitätsplatz, and its centrepiece, the crazy rococo Brunnen der Lebensfreude (Fou
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Jagdschloss Granitz
A grandiose hunting palace built in 1723 on top of the 107m-high Tempelberg, Jagdschloss Granitz was significantly enlarged and altered by Wilhelm Malte I in 1837. The results will remind you of salt and pepper shakers or a phallic fantasy, depending on your outlook. Malte’s flight
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Brecht
Playwright Bertolt Brecht lived in this house from 1953 until his death in 1956. Guides take you inside his office, a large library, and the tiny bedroom where he died. Decorated with Chinese artwork, it’s been left as though he’d briefly stepped out, leaving his hat and woollen ca
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Reichsburg
Like many others in the area, Cochems original 11th-century castle fell victim to French troops in 1689, then stood ruined for centuries until wealthy Berliner Louis Ravene snapped it up for a pittance in 1868 and had it restored to its current – if not always architecturally faith
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Mariendom
Reopened in 2014 after a painstaking renovation and restoration process, Hildesheim’s Unesco World Heritage–listed cathedral took its present form in 1061 and was virtually rebuilt after WWII bombing. It’s famous for the almost 5m-high Bernwardstüren, bronze doors with bas-reliefs
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Schloss Schönhausen
Schloss Schönhausen is surrounded by a lovely park and packs a lot of German history into its pint-size frame. Originally a country estate of Prussian nobles, in 1740 it became the summer residence of Frederick IIs estranged wife Elisabeth Christine, who had it enlarged and rendere
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Käthe
This museum in a charming villa is devoted to German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), whose social and political awareness lent a tortured power to her lithographs, graphics, woodcuts, sculptures and drawings. Highlights include the antihunger lithography Brot! (Bread!, 1924) and
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