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Speicherstadt
The seven-storey red-brick warehouses lining the Speicherstadt archipelago are a famous Hamburg symbol and the largest continuous warehouse complex in the world, recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage site. Its distinctive architecture is best appreciated on a leisurely wander or
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Rathaus
The 1573 Rathaus is built in Renaissance style and neatly frames the historic Marktplatz.
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Römerberg
The Römerberg is Frankfurt’s old central square. Ornately gabled half-timbered buildings, reconstructed after WWII, give an idea of how beautiful the city’s medieval core once was.In the squares centre is the Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen ; in 1612, at the coronation of Matthias, the fount
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Burg Vischering
The quintessential medieval moated castle, Burg Vischering is Westphalia’s oldest (1271), and the kind that conjures romantic images of knights and damsels. Surrounded by a system of ramparts and ditches, the complex consists of an outer castle and the main castle, now a museum. Bu
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Gendarmenmarkt
Berlins most graceful square is bookended by the domed 18th-century German and French cathedrals and punctuated by a grandly porticoed concert hall, the Konzerthaus. It was named for the Gens d’Armes, an 18th-century Prussian regiment consisting of French Huguenot immigrants whose
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Museum Gunzenhauser
A former 1930 bank building, built in austere New Objectivity style, is now a gallery of 20th-century art, most famous for its expressionist works by such key artists as Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and local boy Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Pride of place, though, goes to a caree
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Dommuseum
To the left as you enter the cathedral , the Dommuseum has a small collection of precious liturgical objects and sells tickets for Dom tours (in German).
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Oberes Schloss
From Markt, Burgstrasse slopes up to the Oberes Schloss, a classic medieval fortress and the ancestral home of the rulers of Nassau-Oranien. Its labyrinth of rooms now houses the Siegerlandmuseum, which would be a mediocre collection of old paintings were it not for its nine Rubens
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Kiellinie
The magnificent waterfront promenade known as the Kiellinie begins northeast of the Schlossgarten. Sailing clubs, a tiny aquarium , cafes and restaurants line the way and there are an ever-changing series of vistas of the harbour and huge ships. Eventually the 3.5km-promenade becom
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Neues Rathaus
An excellent way to get your bearings in Hanover is to visit the Neues Rathaus (built 1901–13) and travel 98m to the top in the curved lift (the only one of its kind) inside its green dome. There are four observation platforms offering panoramic views as far as the Deister hills. T
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Porta Nigra
This brooding 2nd-century Roman city gate – blackened by time (hence the name, Latin for ‘black gate’) – is a marvel of engineering since it’s held together by nothing but gravity and iron clamps. In the 11th century, the structure was turned into a church to honour Simeon, a Greek
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Philosophenweg
Winding past monuments, towers, ruins, a beer garden and an enormous Thingstätte (amphitheatre; built by the Nazis in 1935), the 2.5km-long Philosophers’ Walk has captivating views of Heidelbergs Schloss, especially at sunset when the city is bathed in a reddish glow. Access is eas
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Senckenberg Museum
Life-size dinosaur mock-ups guard the front of Frankfurt’s natural history museum. Inside the early 1900s neo-baroque building, exhibits cover palaeontology (including fossils from the Grube Messel site), biology and geology. Most have English signs. The museum is free to visitors
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Schloss Augustusburg
The larger and flashier of Brühls palaces, Schloss Augustusburg is a little jewel-box inside a moat. It was designed by François Cuvilliés. On guided tours you’ll learn fascinating titbits about hygiene, dating and other aspects of daily life at court. The architectural highlight i
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Residenzschloss
Nicknamed the Swabian Versailles, the Residenzschloss is an extravagant 452-room baroque, rococo and Empire affair. The 90-minute chateau tours (in German) begin half-hourly; theres a English tour at 1.30pm.The 18th-century feast continues with a spin of the staggeringly ornate, sc
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Historisches Grünes Gewölbe
The Historic Green Vault displays some 3000 precious items in the same fashion as during the time of August der Starke, namely on shelves and tables without glass protection in a series of increasingly lavish rooms. Admission is by timed ticket only, and only a limited number of vi
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Europäisches Hansemuseum
Opened in 2015, this brilliant museum tells the remarkable story of the Hanseatic League, Lübeck and the region. For 600 years, city states in Northern Europe and along the Baltic discovered that shared interests in trade made everybodys life better than war. Transfixing exhibits u
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Brandenburger Tor & Pariser Platz
A symbol of division during the Cold War, the landmark Brandenburg Gate now epitomises German reunification. Carl Gotthard Langhans found inspiration in Athens Acropolis for the elegant triumphal arch, completed in 1791 as the royal city gate. It stands sentinel over Pariser Platz,
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Landschaftspark Duisburg
Molten iron used to flow 24/7 from the fiery furnaces of this decommissioned iron works that is now a unique performance space and an all-ages adventure playground. You can free-climb its ore bunkers, take a diving course in the former gas tank, climb to the top of the blast furnac
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Landesmuseum Mainz
Highlights of this well-laid-out state museum include an ensemble of exquisite Jugendstil pieces, outstanding collections of Renaissance and 20th-century German paintings, and baroque porcelain and furniture. Rare artefacts from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods include 4th-
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