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Museum für Kommunikation
The Museum für Kommunikation is a touchy-feely museum displaying the history of communication, including tips on how to make invisible ink and decipher codes. Its a winner with kids, and it wont cost you a penny unless you visit the excellent café. The Museum für Kommunikation (Com
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Museum Moderner Kunst
Gothic architecture contrasts with 20th- and 21st-century artworks at Passaus Modern Art Museum. The rump of the permanent exhibition is made up of cubist and expressionist works by Georg Philipp Wörlen, who died in Passau in 1954 and whose architect son, Hanns Egon Wörlen, set up
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Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist, one of Germanys key poets and dramatists of the Romantic Age, was born in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1777. A pilgrimage stop for literature fans, this sensitively curated exhibit in an old garrison school on the river walk chronicles the life, works and importance of
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Flugwerft Schleissheim
The Flugwerft Schleissheim, the aviation branch of the Deutsches Museum, makes for a nice change of pace and aesthetics from Schleissheims regal palaces. Spirits will soar at the sight of the lethal Soviet MiG-21 fighter jet, the Vietnam-era F-4E Phantom and a replica of Otto Lilie
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Eilenriede Forest
At over 640 hectares, Europes largest city forest, beginning about 1km northeast of the Hauptbahnhof, is also known as Hanovers grüne Lunge (green lung). It is well frequented and loved by locals who picnic, play and cycle through the enchanting woods, luminous green in the summert
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Imperia
At the end of the pier, giving ferry passengers a come-hither look from her rotating pedestal, stands Imperia. Peter Lenk’s 9m-high sculpture of a buxom prostitute, said to have plied her trade in the days of the Council of Constance, is immortalised in a novel by Honoré de Balzac.
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Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Berlins opulent state opera was commissioned as the royal opera house by Frederick the Great and designed by his friend and master architect Georg Wenzelslaus von Knobelsdorff. It has graced Bebelplatz since 1742 and risen from the ashes three times. Again in need of an overhaul, t
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Schokoladenmuseum
At this high-tech temple to the art of chocolate-making, exhibits on the origin of the ‘elixir of the gods’, as the Aztecs called it, and the cocoa-growing process are followed by a live-production factory tour and a stop at a chocolate fountain for a sample. Upstairs are departme
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Franziskaner Museum
Next to the 13th-century Riettor and occupying a former Franciscan monastery, the Franziskaner Museum skips merrily through Villingen’s history and heritage. Standouts include Celtic artefacts unearthed at Magdalenenberg, 30 minutes’ walk south of Villingen’s centre. Dating to 616
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Cottahaus
The Cottahaus is the one-time home of Johann Friedrich Cotta, who first published the works of Schiller and Goethe. A bit of a lad, Goethe conducted detailed research on Tübingen’s pubs during his weeklong stay in 1797. The party-loving genius is commemorated by the plaque ‘Hier wo
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Seepromenade
In summer the harbourside promenade has a happy-go-lucky air, with its palms, bobbing boats and folk sunning themselves in pavement cafes.Out at the harbour gates, looking across to the Alps, is Lindau’s signature 36m-high Neuer Leuchtturm and, just in case you forget which state y
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Residenzplatz
With its horse-drawn carriages, palace and street entertainers, this stately baroque square is the Salzburg of a thousand postcards. Its centrepiece is the Residenzbrunnen , an enormous marble fountain ringed by four water-spouting horses and topped by a conch shell–bearing Triton.
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Rheinturm
Spearing the sky at the southern end of the Rhine promenade, the Rheinturm (which is brilliantly lit at night) has an observation deck at the 168m level of its overall height of 240m. The views are as sweeping, although the phrase on a clear day you can see Essen may not inspire. T
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Kunstgewerbemuseum
This prized collection of European design, fashion and decorative arts from the Middle Ages to today is part of the Kulturforum museum cluster. Feast your eyes on exquisitely ornate reliquaries, portable altars, chests, leather wallpaper as well as Jugendstil and Bauhaus classics b
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Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Housed inside the pale yellow Renaissance-baroque Schloss (1607) at the southern end of the Altstadt shopping district (on Schlossplatz, just south of Markt), this museum chronicles the area’s history from the Middle Ages. On the 1st floor you’ll find the Idyllenzimmer, with 44 pai
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Glockenturm
To truly appreciate the grandeur Berlins Olympic Stadium, head up to the outdoor viewing platform of the 77m-high Bell Tower, also built for the 1936 Olympics. En route youll pass a replica of the Olympic bell (the damaged original is displayed south of the stadium). In the foyer,
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Böttcherstrasse
The charming medieval coopers lane was transformed into a prime example of mostly expressionist architecture in the 1920s at the instigation of coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius. Its red-brick houses sport unique facades, whimsical fountains, statues and a carillon; many house artesa
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Elbauenpark & Jahrtausendturm
The Elbauenpark was carved out of the landscape for a 1999 garden exhibition, and has rose, sculpture and other gardens and a butterfly house. Its most unusual attraction, though, is the conical, 60m-high Jahrtausendturm (Millennial Tower), which bills itself as the world’s tallest
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Mühlburg
One of Thuringias oldest preserved structures, the Mühlburg stands atop a hill 375m above sea level. Although considered a castle ruin, it is the oldest of the three Drei Gleichen castles, dating to around 704. Its moat walls, drawbridge and 22m-high castle tower are intact. There
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Potsdamer Stadtschloss (Landtag Brandenburg)
Potsdams newest landmark is the replica of the 18th-century Prussian City Palace that was partly destroyed in WWII and completely removed by East German town planners in 1960. It reopened in October 2013 as the new home of the Brandenburg state parliament. Of the original building,
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