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Kloster Andechs
Founded in the 10th century, the gorgeous hilltop monastery of Andechs has long been a place of pilgrimage, though today more visitors come to slurp the Benedictines fabled ales. The church owns two relics of enormous importance: branches that are thought to come from Christ’s crow
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Museum für Fotografie
The artistic legacy of Helmut Newton (1920–2004), the Berlin-born enfant terrible of fashion and lifestyle photography, is given centre stage at Berlins Photography Museum in a converted Prussian officers’ casino behind Bahnhof Zoo. On the top floor, the gloriously restored barrel-
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Reichsparteitagsgelände
If you’ve ever wondered where the infamous black-and-white images of ecstatic Nazi supporters hailing their Führer were taken, it was here in Nuremberg. Much of the grounds were destroyed during Allied bombing raids, but enough remain to get a sense of the megalomania behind it, es
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Völklinger Hütte
The hulking former ironworks of Völklinger Hütte, about 14km northwest of Saarbrücken, are one of Europe’s great heavy-industrial relics. Opened in 1873, 17,000 people worked here by 1965 – the height of Germany’s post-WWII boom. The plant blasted its last pig iron in 1986 and was
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Park & Schloss Branitz
A highlight of a visit to Cottbus, about 35km southeast of Lübbenau, is this palace-and-park ensemble, which stems from the feverish brow of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871) – aristocrat, writer, ladys man, eccentric and one of Germanys most formidable garden architect
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Neues Schloss
Stuttgarts central square is dominated by the exuberant three-winged Neues Schloss. Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg’s answer to Versailles, the baroque-neoclassical royal residence now houses state government ministries.
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Neues Palais
The final palace commissioned by Frederick the Great, the Neues Palais has made-to-impress dimensions, a central dome and a lavish exterior capped with a parade of sandstone figures. The interior attests to the high level of artistry and craftsmanship of the 18th century. Its an op
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Schloss Colditz
The very name Colditz is enough to send goosebumps down many peoples spines, and so it might come as a surprise that the famous WWII-era high security prison for Allied officers is not as instantaneously recognisable to most Germans, who grew up without the string of books and film
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Schloss Weesenstein
A magnificent sight on a rocky crag high above the Müglitz River, Schloss Weesenstein is an amazing alchemy of styles, blending medieval roots with Renaissance and baroque embellishments. This resulted in an architectural curiosity where the banquet halls ended up beneath the roof,
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Nationalpark Kellerwald
Hesses first national park, established in 2004, encompasses the Kellerwald , one of the largest extant red-beech forests in Central Europe, and the Edersee , a serpentine artificial reservoir 55km northeast of Marburg and about the same distance southwest of Kassel. Animals such a
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Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Picture the classic 19th-century museum, a palatial neoclassical edifice overflowing with exotic treasure and thought-provoking works of art, a repository for a nation’s history, a grand purpose-built display case for royal trinkets, church baubles and state-owned rarities – this i
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Englischer Garten
The sprawling English Garden is among Europes biggest city parks – it even rivals Londons Hyde Park and New Yorks Central Park for size – and is a popular playground for locals and visitors alike. Stretching north from Prinzregentenstrasse for about 5km, it was commissioned by Elec
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Pinakothek der Moderne
Germanys largest modern-art museum unites four significant collections under a single roof: 20th-century art, applied design from the 19th century to today, a graphics collection and an architecture museum. Its housed in a spectacular building by Stephan Braunfels, whose four-store
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Speicherstadt & Harbour
The beautiful red-brick, neo-Gothic warehouses lining the Elbe archipelago south of the Altstadt once stored exotic goods from around the world. Now the so-called Speicherstadt is a popular sightseeing attraction. Its best appreciated by simply wandering through its streets or taki
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Schloss Linderhof
A pocket-sized trove of weird treasures, Schloss Linderhof was Ludwig II’s smallest but most sumptuous palace, and the only one he lived to see fully completed. Finished in 1878, the palace hugs a steep hillside in a fantasy landscape of French gardens, fountains and follies. The r
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Abteikirche Maria Laach
Serenely nestled in beautiful countryside, Abteikirche Maria Laach (Maria Laach Abbey Church) is one of the finest examples of a Romanesque church in Germany. Part of a nine-century-old Benedictine abbey, it is next to a volcanic lake, the Laacher See, surrounded by a 21-sq-km natu
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IG
The monumental seven-storey-high IG-Farbenhaus was erected in 1931 as the headquarters of IG-Farben (pronounced ‘ee geh far-behn’), the mammoth German chemicals conglomerate whose constituent companies included Agfa, BASF, Bayer and Hoechst. After Hitler came to power, Jewish scien
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Schloss Herrenchiemsee
An island just 1.5km across the Chiemsee from Prien, Herreninsel is home to Ludwig II’s Versailles-inspired castle. Begun in 1878, it was never intended as a residence, but as a homage to absolutist monarchy, as epitomised by Ludwig’s hero, Louis XIV. Ludwig spent only ten days her
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Münchner Stadtmuseum
Installed for the citys 850th birthday (2008), the Münchner Stadtmuseums Typisch München (Typical Munich) exhibition – taking up the whole of a rambling building – tells Munichs story in an imaginative, uncluttered and engaging way. Exhibits in each section represent something quin
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Schloss Nymphenburg
This commanding palace and its lavish gardens sprawl around 5km northwest of the Altstadt. Begun in 1664 as a villa for Electress Adelaide of Savoy, the stately pile was extended over the next century to create the royal familys summer residence. Franz Duke of Bavaria, head of the
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