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Dom St Peter
It takes a few seconds for your eyes to adjust to the dim interior of Regensburg’s soaring landmark, the Dom St Peter, one of Bavaria’s grandest Gothic cathedrals with stunning kaleidoscopic stained-glass windows and an opulent, silver-sheathed main altar. The cathedral is home of
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Eremitage
Around 6km east of the centre lies the Eremitage, a lush park girding the Altes Schloss , the summer residence that belonged to 18th-century margrave Friedrich and his wife Wilhelmine. Visits to the palace are by guided tour only and take in the Chinese Mirror room where Countess W
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Blühendes Barock
Appealing in summer is a fragrant stroll amid the herbs, rhododendrons and gushing fountains of the Blühendes Barock gardens. Admission includes entry to the Märchengarten , a fairy-tale theme park. Take the kids to see the witch with a Swabian cackle at the gingerbread house and a
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Zeitreise DDR Museum Radebeul
Large and well organised, each of the four floors here is dedicated to a particular theme, such as work, daily life and state institutions. This is rounded off by a fabulous collection of Trabi cars, Simson motorbikes and other vehicles. A timeline charts milestones in Cold War his
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Stiftskirche St Cyriakus
This church is one of the purest examples of Romanesque architecture from the Ottonian period. Construction of the basilica, which is based on the form of a cross, was begun in 959. Especially noteworthy is the early use of alternating columns and pillars, later a common Romanesque
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Zille Museum
Like no other artist of his time, Heinrich Zille (1859–1929) managed to capture the hardships of working-class life in the Industrial Age with empathy and humour. This small private museum in the Nikolaiviertel preserves his legacy with a selection of drawings, photographs and grap
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Jakobskirche
One of the few places of worship in Bavaria to charge admission, Rothenburgs Lutheran parish church was begun in the 14th century and finished in the 15th. The building sports some wonderfully aged stained glass windows but the top attraction is Tilman Riemenschneiders Heilig Blut
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Archenhold Sternwarte
The star exhibit at Germany’s oldest astronomical observatory is the 21m-long refracting telescope (the worlds longest), built in 1896 by astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold. Between October and March, you can look through it at 8pm on the second and fourth Friday of the month. O
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BMW Museum
This silver, bowl-shaped museum comprises seven themed houses that examine the development of BMWs product line and include sections on motorcycles and motor racing. Even if you cant tell a head gasket from a crankshaft, the interior design – with its curvy retro feel, futuristic b
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Mauer Panorama
Artist Yadegar Asisi is famous for creating bafflingly detailed monumental photographic panoramas. At 15m high and 60m wide, his latest creation depicts the bleakness of everyday life along the Berlin Wall on a random day in the 1980s. Standing on a scaffold in the West, visitors g
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Marienschlucht
Well worth the 15km trek north of Konstanz, Marienschlucht is a deep ravine wedged between the villages of Bodman and Wallhausen. A wooden staircase zigzags up through the chasm, past a babbling stream and 30m-high cliffs thick with lichen and ferns. The top rewards with snapshot v
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Internationales Maritimes Museum
Hamburgs maritime past – and future – is fully explored in this excellent private museum that sprawls over 10 floors of a revamped brick shipping warehouse. Considered the world’s largest private collection of maritime treasures, it includes a mind-numbing 26,000 model ships, 50,00
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Hauptmarkt
Reichenstrasse leads west from the tower, past some fancy baroque houses to the Hauptmarkt, site of the tourist office and thrice-weekly farmers markets. The square is dominated by the impressive Rathaus, with an 18th-century baroque exterior that masks a Gothic origin. The intrigu
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Affenberg Salem
No zoo-like cages, no circus antics, just happy Barbary macaques free to roam in a near-to-natural habitat: thats the concept behind conservation-oriented Affenberg Salem. Trails interweave the 20-hectare woodlands, where you can feed tail-less monkeys one piece of special popcorn
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Schloss Freudenberg
Challenge all your senses at Schloss Freudenberg, a century-old mansion 3.5km southwest of Wiesbadens centre that’s been turned into a hands-on, experiential Erhfahrungsfeld (‘Experience Field’). Inspired by the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, the exhibits include a Geruchsorgel (‘odour o
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Museen im Grassi
The university-run Museen im Grassi harbours three fantastic collections that are often overlooked, despite being a five-minute walk from Augustusplatz. At the stellar Musikinstrumenten-Museum you can discover music from five centuries in rarity-filled exhibits and an interactive s
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Kaufmannshöfe
Flensburg’s Kaufmannshöfe date from the 18th century, when Danish-ruled Flensburg provided supplies to the Danish West Indies (St Thomas, St Jan and St Croix) in exchange for sugar and rum.Free town maps from the tourist office mark nearly every Hof (courtyard). Designed to make it
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Grabkapelle Württemberg
When King Wilhelm I of Württemberg’s beloved wife Katharina Pavlovna, daughter of a Russian tsar, died at the age of 30 in 1819, the king tore down the family castle and built this domed burial chapel. The king was also interred in the classical-style Russian Orthodox chapel decade
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Lorsch Abbey
Founded around AD 760 and Unesco-listed in 1991, Lorsch Abbey, in the charming village of Lorsch, was an important religious site in its Carolingian heyday (8th to 10th centuries). Preserved medieval buildings include the rare, Carolingian-era Königshalle and the Altenmünster; muse
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Museum Mobile
This high-tech car museum is part of the Audi Forum complex. Exhibits on three floors chart Audi’s humble beginnings in 1899 to its latest dream machines such as the R8. Some 50 cars and 20 motorbikes are on display, including prototypes that glide past visitors on an open lift. Bu
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