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Loxx am Alex Miniatur Welten Berlin
If you want to see Dad turn into a little kid, take him to this huge model railway where digitally controlled trains zip around central Berlin in miniature. Tour the Brandenburg Gate, visit Angela Merkel in the Chancellory or see planes take off and land at the already completed Lo
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Jüdisches Museum Franken
A quick U-Bahn ride away in the neighbouring town of Fürth is the Jüdisches Museum Franken. Fürth once had the largest Jewish congregation of any city in southern Germany, and this museum, housed in a handsomely restored building, chronicles the history of Jewish life in the region
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Museum Villa Stuck
Franz von Stuck was a leading light in Munichs art scene around the turn of the 20th century and his residence is one of the finest Jugendstil homes youll ever see. Stuck came up with the intricate design, which forges tapestries, patterned floors, coffered ceilings and other eleme
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Roman Wall
The most tangible reminder of the ancient rectangular Castra Regina (Regen Fortress), where the name ‘Regensburg’ comes from, is the remaining Roman wall, which follows Unter den Schwibbögen and veers south onto Dr-Martin-Luther-Strasse. Dating from AD 179 the rough-hewn Porta Prae
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Mausoleum
In the Schlosspark, west of the carp pond, the neoclassical Mausoleum (1810) was conceived as the final resting place of Queen Luise but twice expanded to make room for other royals, including Luise’s husband Friedrich Wilhelm III and Emperor William I and his wife Augusta. Their o
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Passauer Glasmuseum
Opened by Neil Armstrong, of all people, Passaus warren-like glass museum is filled with some 30,000 priceless pieces of glass and crystal from the baroque, classical, art-nouveau and art-deco periods. Much of what you see hails from the glassworks of Bohemia, but there are also wo
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Chamissoplatz
On Saturday mornings, the entire neighbourhood turns out for Berlins longest-running organic farmers market held on this pretty square framed by stately 19th-century townhouses. With cobbled streets, old-timey lanterns and even an octagonal pissoir, the entire square looks virtuall
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Geissbockbrunnen
Near the tourist office, the whimsical Goat Fountain’ (1985), celebrates a quirky local tradition. For seven centuries, the nearby town of Lambrecht has had to pay an annual tribute of one goat for using pastureland belonging to Deidesheim. The presentation of this goat, which is a
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Diözesan Museum
On the south side of the Dom, in a separate building off the cloisters, is the Diözesan Museum . Top ranking among its ecclesiastical treasures goes to Heinrich IIs Blue Coat of Stars, kept not far from the pontifical knee-socks of Clemens II.
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St Stephansmünster
High above the centre, the Romanesque and Gothic St Stephansmünster shelters a faded fresco cycle, Martin Schongauer’s The Last Judgment (1491), and a magnificent altar triptych (1526) carved from linden wood. From the tree-shaded square outside, the Schänzletreppe leads down to Gu
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Stahlhaus
The Stahlhaus is home to a Bauhaus information centre where you can pick up an English-language pamphlet describing the architecture or join a German-language tour . These take you inside one of Hannes Meyers red-brick, exterior walkway-access apartment buildings (the so-called Lau
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Villa Hügel
The imposing Villa Hügel is where the Krupp dynasty made its home from 1873 to 1945. You can wander around the partially furnished private quarters of the main building, which also hosts the occasional concert and internationally acclaimed art show (call or check the website for ho
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Museum in der Kulturbrauerei
This exhibit uses original documents and objects (including a camper-style Trabi car) to teach the rest of us about daily life in East Germany. Four themed sections juxtapose the lofty aspirations of the socialist state with the sobering realities of material shortages, surveillanc
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Maximilianeum
Maximilianstrasse culminates in the glorious Maximilianeum, completed in 1874, a decade after Max IIs sudden death. Its an imposing structure, drawn like a theatre curtain across a hilltop, bedecked with mosaics, paintings and other artistic objects. Its framed by an undulating par
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Felsengänge
Beneath the Albrecht Dürer Monument on Albrecht-Dürer-Platz are the chilly Felsengänge. Departing from the brewery shop at Burgstrasse 19, tours descend to this four-storey subterranean warren, which dates from the 14th century and once housed a brewery and a beer cellar. During WW
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Bayerisches Polizeimuseum
The museum complex at Neues Schloss includes the Bayerisches Polizeimuseum, which lives in the Turm Triva, built at the same time as the complexs Reduit Tilly. Exhibitions trace the story of Bavarian police and their role in various episodes of history such as the Third Reich and t
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St Lambertikirche
One of Münster’s finest churches, the late-Gothic St Lambertikirche was built in 1450. See those three wrought-iron cages dangling from the openwork spire? They once displayed the corpses of the Anabaptist leader Jan van Leyden and his cohorts after they were defeated in 1535 by tr
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Reichenbacher Turm
Climb the 165 steps to the top of this fortification tower that was inhabited by a watchman until 1904. En route, exhibits on the purpose of such watchmen (eg keeping an eye out for fire or advancing marauders) provide a modest excuse to catch your breath. Theres another tower a sh
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Niedersachsenstein
A highlight of Worpswede is the stroll to the 55m-tall Weyerberg dune, less than a kilometre from the centre, where you find the Niedersachsenstein, a contentious sculpture looming like a giant eagle. This is the work of Bernhard Hoetger, the man responsible for much of Bremen’s Bö
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Strandbad
This popular swimming beach is situated on the southeast bank of the Maschsee, Hanover’s large lake, where you’ll also find inline skaters gliding by in the shade of neighbouring trees. The closest stop is Döhrener Turm on the tram/U-Bahn lines 1, 2 and 8. Walk west for 15 minutes
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