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Zoo am Meer
The Zoo am Meer isn’t spectacular on the face of things, but it enthrals kids, partly because the enclosures are cleverly built into one big artificial ‘rock’ formation. They’ll see a polar bear (or if he’s sleeping, a fluffy pile of fur on a rock), polar foxes, seals, penguins, pu
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Town Fortification
One of the best places to admire the beauty of Mühlhausens Altstadt is from the 330m section of the town fortification accessible through Inneres Frauentor. Originally the 12th-century fortification ran for 2.8km around the town, from which a remarkable 2km remain today. Chart the
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Ludwigskirche
The somber twin-towered Ludwigskirche, built by Friedrich von Gärtner between 1829 and 1844, is a highly decorative, almost Byzantine affair with one major showpiece: the Last Judgment fresco by the Nazarene painter Peter Cornelius in the choir. Its one of the largest in the world
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Kunsthalle Museum
Mannheims premier gallery is a vast repository of modern and contemporary art by masters such as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Kandinsky and Rodin. The permanent collection has often been stored away to make space for blockbuster exhibitions, but that will change with the opening of a €70
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Mont Royal
Above Traben are the remains of the vast Mont Royal fortress, constructed between 1687 and 1698 and designed by Vauban for Louis XIV as a base from which to project French power. Ruinously expensive, it was dismantled before completion by the French themselves under the Treaty of R
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Ferropolis
The museum is an interesting monument to mining, and the changes wrought by industrial society. Its also a popular concert and event venue. You can watch a grand fireworks show, catch Linkin Park live or channel a 21st-century Woodstock vibe at such music festivals as Splash (www.s
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Bucksturm
Just north of Heger Tor and Felix-Nussbaum-Haus youll find the 28m-high Bucksturm, built as a watchtower inside the town wall in the 13th century and later used as a prison. Then, in the 16th and 17th centuries, those accused of being witches were tortured here. Today, a small exhi
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Berlin Dungeon
This is a tour through a camped-up chamber of horrors thats brought to life by actors in nine shows with such spine-tingling names as Elevator of Doom, Torture Chamber and the Butcher of Berlin. Lucky ones get to escape the plague on a river raft ride across the Spree River. Check
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Befreiungshalle
Perched on a hill above the Danube, this mustard-coloured tankard of a building is the Befreiungshalle . Erected in 1863, its an outrageous piece of Bavarian nationalism ordered by King Ludwig I to commemorate the victories over Napoleon (1813-15). Inside youll find a veritable shr
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Bavariastatue
The Bavariastatue is an 18m-high Amazon in the Statue of Liberty tradition, oak wreath in her hand and lion at her feet. This iron lady has a cunning design that makes her seem solid, but actually you can climb via the knee joint up to the head for a great view of the Oktoberfest,
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Ramones Museum
They sang ‘Born to Die in Berlin’, but the legacy of punk pioneers the Ramones is kept very much alive in the German capital, thanks to this eclectic collection of memorabilia. Look for Marky Ramone’s drumsticks and Johnny Ramone’s jeans amid signed album covers, posters, flyers, p
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Pfunds Molkerei
The Guinness-certified ‘world’s most beautiful dairy shop’ was founded in 1880 and is a riot of hand-painted tiles and enamelled sculpture, all handmade by Villeroy & Boch. The shop sells replica tiles, wines, cheeses and other milk products. Not surprisingly, the upstairs cafe
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Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe is lots of fun. Its vast collection of sculpture, furniture, fashion, jewellery, posters, porcelain, musical instruments and household objects runs the gamut from Italian to Islamic, Japanese to Viennese and medieval to pop art, and includes an art-
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Museum Küppersmühle
A half-century of German art is on display at the Museum Küppersmühle in a mill storage building converted by Swiss Pritzker Prize–winning architects Herzog & de Meuron. From Baselitz to Kiefer to Richter, all the big names are showcased beneath the lofty ceilings, as are up to
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Nietzsche Haus
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) spent most of his childhood in this modest home, acquired by his mother after the death of her husband. In 1890 she brought her son back here to nurse him as he was going slowly mad, allegedly as a result of syphilis. The exhibit consists mostly of p
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Deutsches Jagd
Pose with a bronze boar, admire a rococo hunting sledge or examine prehistoric fishing tackle at the old-school Deutsches Jagd und Fischereimuseum, spread across three floors of a former Augustinian church. There are plenty of stuffed critters and dioramas alongside trophies, weapo
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St Wilhadi Kiche
Stades oldest building is this hulking church, which has parts dating to the 14th century. Keeping the building standing to the present dday is the stuff of drama, what with wars, lightening and water-logged ground. Note the heavy buttresses on the exterior and the bands of iron ar
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Hoppener Haus
One block south of the tourist office, on the corner of Poststrasse and Runde Strasse, you’ll find one of Celle’s most magnificent buildings, the ornate Hoppener Haus (1532). If you go another block southwards along Poststrasse and stop in the square in the corner, look for the tin
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Holländisches Viertel
This picturesque cluster of 134 gabled red-brick houses was built around 1730 for Dutch workers invited to Potsdam by Friedrich Wilhelm I. The entire district has been done up beautifully and brims with galleries, boutiques, cafes and restaurants; Mittelstrasse is especially scenic
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Bodemuseum
On the northern tip of Museumsinsel, this palatial edifice houses a comprehensive collection of European sculpture from the early Middle Ages to the 18th century, including priceless masterpieces by Tilman Riemenschenider, Donatello and Giovanni Pisano. Other rooms harbour a precio
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