During a stop in Stuttgart, we visited the Weissenhof Estate, a UNESCO World Heritage site, highlighting modernist architecture with buildings by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
Muskau park is the largest and one of the most famous English landscape gardens in Central Europe, stretching along both …
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The modernist Workers’ Union school was built into a forest outside of Berlin. Today it is open to visitors as …
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Stepping out of the forest after a few hours of hiking, we see the church on a low hill across …
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We have just entered the enormous Cologne Cathedral when an order in long red robes clears his throat. “Please, would …
When we arrive at the Würzburg Residence it is raining cats and dogs. And all the other tourists visiting this …
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Last Friday we went to visit Stralsund, a hanseatic town on the German Baltic Sea Coast. It was not so …
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Clear lines, abstract formality, total functionality: Bauhaus is the quintessential German design school. Of several locations of the Bauhaus school, …
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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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Essen is a city in the middle of the “Ruhrgebiet”, Germany’s traditional centre of mining and heavy industry. But today …
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