When we arrive at the Würzburg Residence it is raining cats and dogs. And all the other tourists visiting this …
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On Christmas Day in the year 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in …
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From the 13th century onwards the (at that time Hungarian) rulers of Transylvania encouraged German-speaking settlers to colonise the Transylvania …
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It happened at the ITB, the world’s biggest tourism fair in Berlin last year. We walked through the Romania section …
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