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Museum Judengasse
Most of Frankfurt’s medieval Jewish ghetto, situated along narrow Judengasse (Jews’ Street), was destroyed by a French bombardment in 1796, but you can get a sense of local Jewish life during the 15th to 18th centuries from the excavated remains of houses and ritual baths. Laws con
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Museum für Völkerkunde
North of the Altstadt, the much-updated Museum für Völkerkunde demonstrates seafaring Hamburg’s acute awareness of the outside world. Modern artefacts from Africa, Asia and the South Pacific are displayed alongside traditional masks, jewellery, costumes and musical instruments. The
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Schloss & Park Georgium
Just a five-minute walk from Dessau Hauptbahnhof, the sprawling 18th-century Park Georgium is anchored by the neoclassical palace, now a picture gallery showcasing German and Dutch old masters, including Rubens and Cranach the Elder. The leafy grounds are also dotted with ponds and
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Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf
The 12th-century Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf is a magnificent ‘double church’ where the nobility sat on the upper level and the parishioners on the lower. The beautiful Romanesque architecture is impressive, as is the restored Old Testament fresco cycle in the lower church. Its a
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Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
Otto Weidt was a broom and brush maker who risked his life protecting his blind and deaf Jewish workers from the Nazis. The exhibit is inside the very workshop where he hid an entire family in a room behind a cabinet, provided food and false papers and bribed Gestapo officials into
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Neuer Pavillon
Returning from a trip to Italy, Friedrich Wilhelm III (r 1797–1848) commissioned Karl Friedrich Schinkel to design this petite summer refuge modelled on a villa in Naples. Today, the minipalace is a sparkling backdrop for masterpieces by such Schinkel-era painters as Caspar David F
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Golf Museum
Claiming to be Europes best golf museum (Scotland, home to the British Golf Museum, is strangely not counted as part of the continent), this unexpected repository of club, tee and score card (including one belonging to King George V of England) backswings its way through golfs illu
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Galerie Alte & Neue Meister
Revel in the Flemish masterpieces collected by the Mecklenburg dukes in the 17th and 18th centuries at this impressive museum with wide-ranging collections. Works include oils by Lucas Cranach the Elder, as well as paintings by Brueghel, Rembrandt and Rubens. The 15 statues in the
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Burg Landshut
A rewarding way to get your heart pumping is hoofing it from the Marktplatz up to Burg Landshut, a ruined 13th-century castle – framed by vineyards and forests – on a bluff above town. Its a very steep 750m from town; allow 30 minutes. You’ll be rewarded with glorious river valley
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Schloss Bellevue
The home of the German president is snowy white Schloss Bellevue. The neoclassical palace was built in 1785 by Philipp Daniel Boumann for the youngest brother of Frederick the Great, then became a school under Kaiser Wilhelm II and a museum of ethnology under the Nazis. The preside
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Kunstmuseum Moritzburg
The late-Gothic Moritzburg castle forms a fantastic setting for this superb permanent art collection. The addition of a glass and aluminium roof over the north and west wings, which had been ruined since the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), nearly doubled the exhibition area. Airy and
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Ukradena Galerie
Dresdens smallest gallery (its name means stolen gallery in Czech). Part of an experimental street art project, its really just a small display case affixed to a wall with a different artist installing a new exhibit every week - see if you can make the vernissage of the new piece e
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Museum Junge Kunst
Art created in the GDR rarely gets much attention these days, which is what makes this museum so special. Its 11,000 works rank among the worlds finest and most comprehensive collections of East German art. Changing exhibits are presented in two locations: the Rathaus (town hall) a
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Panorama Museum
This museum looms on the very site where thousands of peasants were slaughtered in 1525 during the Peasants’ War. There’s one very special painting inside the giant cylindrical structure: called Frühbürgerliche Revolution in Deutschland (Early Civil Revolution in Germany), it measu
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Pfalzgrafstein
Across the river from the village of Kaub, the boat-shaped toll castle Pfalzgrafstein, built in 1326, perches on an island in the middle of the Rhine. A once-dangerous rapid here (since modified) forced boats to use the right-hand side of the river, where a chain forced ships to st
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Kasematten
West of the Albertinum is the Brühlsche Terrasse , a spectacular promenade that’s been called the ‘Balcony of Europe’, with a pavement nearly 15m above the southern embankment of the Elbe. In summer it’s a must for strolling, with expansive views of the river and the opposite bank.
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Humboldt
This futuristic five-floor structure opens up a window on the Berlin City Palace, to be called Humboldt-Forum, whose reconstruction has been underway since 2013. On display are interactive teasers from each future resident – the Ethnological Museum, the Museum of Asian Art and the
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Orangerieschloss
Modelled after an Italian Renaissance villa, the 300m-long Orangery Palace (1864) was Friedrich Wilhelm IVs favourite building project. Its highlight is the Raffaelsaal , which brims with 19th-century copies of the famous painters masterpieces. The greenhouses are still used for st
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Karl Marx Monument
Things have rather turned against the founder of communism since this 7m-high bronze head (one that catches the German philosopher on a very bad hair day) was erected in 1971. Behind Marx theres a huge frieze exhorting ‘Workers of the world, unite!’ in several languages. Attempts t
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Neue Residenz
This splendid episcopal palace gives you an eyeful of the lavish lifestyle of Bamberg’s prince-bishops who, between 1703 and 1802, occupied its 40-odd rooms that can only be seen on guided 45-minute tours (in German). Tickets are also good for the Bavarian State Gallery, with works
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