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Stadtmuseum Simeonstift
Adjoining the Porta Nigra, in the 11th-century priests residence Simeons College (retaining an original 1060-laid oak beam floor in the double-storey cloister), Triers city museum brings alive two millennia of local history through paintings, sculptures, porcelain, textiles and mor
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Museum Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz
This former church holds Zittaus most famous attraction, the 1472 Grosses Zittauer Fastentuch (Large Zittau Lenten Veil). The house-sized painted linen cloth shows a complete illustrated Bible in 90-odd scenes – Genesis to the Last Judgement. Its original purpose was to conceal the
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Mosel
Part of the St-Nikolaus-Hospital complex, the small Moselle Wine Museum has interactive screens (best appreciated by German speakers) and features such as an Aromabar (you have to guess what you’re smelling). The main event, though, is the cellar of the adjacent Vinothek , where yo
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Paulskirche
Paulskirche is a significant building when it comes to German politics. Built in 1789 as a Protestant church, it became the seat of the Frankfurt Parliament from 1848 to 1849; the National Assembly worked on a constitution for a united Germany here. The constitution never happened,
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Neue Wache
This columned, temple-like neoclassical structure (1818) was Karl Friedrich Schinkels first Berlin commission. Originally a Prussian royal guardhouse, it is now an antiwar memorial whose austere interior is dominated by Käthe Kollwitz’ heart-wrenching sculpture of a mother cradling
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Pfefferberg
This rambling listed ex-brewery-complex harbours several culture and gastro venues as well as a hostel and the Bassy nightclub. Beer production resumed in 2013 with the opening of the Pfefferbräu microbrewery. At the Christinenstrasse (northern) entrance, the Museum for Architectur
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Brücke
In 1905 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner founded Germany’s first modern-artist group, called Die Brücke (The Bridge). Rejecting traditional techniques taught in the academies, they experimented with bright, emotional colours and warped perspectives that
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Alte Spinnerei
Cotton to culture is the motto of the Alte Spinnerei , a 19th-century cotton-spinning factory turned artist colony. Around 80 New Leipzig School artists, including Neo Rauch, have their studios in this huge pile of red-brick buildings, alongside designers, architects, goldsmiths an
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Alte Oper
Inaugurated in 1880, the Italian Renaissance-style Alte Oper (‘old opera house’) anchors the western end of the Zeil-Fressgass pedestrian zone. Burnt out in 1944, it narrowly avoided being razed and replaced with 1960s cubes and was finally reconstructed between 1976 and 1981 to re
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Stadtkirche
The highlight of the 13th-century Stadtkirche is the 235 steps you can climb to the top of the church steeple for an amazing view of the city: not for those who suffer vertigo. The city trumpeter climbs 220 steps to the white tower below the steeple for a trumpet fanfare in all fou
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RAW Gelände
This jumble of derelict buildings is one of the last subcultural compounds in central Berlin. Founded in 1867 as a train repair station (Reichsbahn-Ausbesserungs-Werk, aka RAW), it remained in operation until 1994. Since 1999, the graffiti-slathered grounds have been a thriving off
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Hofgarten
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Augustinerkloster
It’s Luther lore galore at the very monastery where the reformer lived from 1505 to 1511, and where he was ordained as a monk and read his first Mass. You’re free to roam the grounds, visit the church with its ethereal Gothic stained-glass windows and attend the prayer services. Gu
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Motorradmuseum
The Schloss is nicknamed the Palace of the Bikers for good reason. This is where youll find the Motorradmuseum , one of the largest and most prestigious collections of motorcycles in Europe. Treasures include classic Horch, DKW (later MZ) and BMW roadsters, and some very rare Harle
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Neumünster
In the Altstadt, this satisfyingly symmetrical church stands on the site where three ill-fated Irish missionaries who tried to convert Duke Gosbert to Christianity in 686 met their maker. Romanesque at its core, it was given a thorough baroque restyle by the Zimmermann brothers and
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Lorelei Sculpture
At the tip of a narrow breakwater jutting into the Rhine, a bronze sculpture of Loreleys famous maiden perches lasciviously atop a rocky platform. Access to the breakwater car park is 2.5km south of St Goarshausen. From the car park, you can walk the 600m out to the sculpture, from
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Kunsthofpassage
Take a web of grimy courtyards, a load of paint and a bunch of visionary Dresden artists and out comes the Kunsthofpassage, one of the most refreshingly artistic spaces in the Neustadt. Each courtyard has its own charm, but favourites include the Court of the Elements, where music
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Hitlers Bunker
Berlin was burning and Soviet tanks advancing relentlessly when Adolf Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, alongside Eva Braun, his long-time female companion, hours after their marriage. Today, a parking lot covers the site, revealing its dark history only via an information
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Red Dot Design Museum
The Red Dot Design Museum is in the stokers hall, creatively adapted by British architect Norman Foster. In a perfect marriage of space and function, this four-storey maze showcases the best in contemporary design amid the original fixtures: bathtubs balancing on grated walkways, b
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Heiliggeistkirche
For bird’s-eye views, climb 208 stairs to the top of the tower of Heidelbergs famous church, constructed between 1344 and 1441, which was shared by Catholics and Protestants from 1706 until 1936 (its now Protestant). The church is often used for concerts (adult/child from €10/6), i
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