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Insel Hiddensee
The Dornbusch Lighthouse is the landmark of Hiddensee, a car-free Baltic Sea island just west of Rügen in northeastern Germany. White with a red lantern, it crowns the hilly north of the island above the village of Kloster. Climb its 102 s…
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Lübeck
Lübeck Town Hall on the city's market square is one of the largest medieval town halls in Germany and a showpiece of the Brick Gothic style that defined the Baltic trading cities. From here the merchants of the "Queen of the Hanseatic Leag…
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Leipzig
The Mädler Passage (Mädlerpassage) is one of the most beautiful shopping arcades in Germany and a highlight of any walk through central Leipzig. Between Grimmaische Straße and Neumarkt, boutiques, cafes and restaurants line a glass-roofed…
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Bayreuth
The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth is one of very few Baroque theatres that survive almost exactly as they were built. Its auditorium of painted and gilded wood was designed by Giuseppe and Carlo Galli Bibiena, the most sought-after th…
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Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, about 30 km south of Frankfurt, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Europe's key landmarks of Art Nouveau (called Jugendstil in German) and early modernism. From 1899, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse bro…
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Düsseldorf
The MedienHafen (Media Harbor) in Düsseldorf is the city's showcase of contemporary architecture. On the site of an old Rhine cargo port, you now find Frank Gehry's famous twisting buildings, colorful office towers, design hotels and water…
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Frankfurt am Main
The Messeturm (Trade Fair Tower) in Frankfurt is one of the city's most recognizable skyscrapers: a red granite tower topped by a pyramid, standing beside the exhibition grounds on Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage. At about 257 meters (843 feet) it…
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Weimar
A white, almost square cube with a taller middle section, in a residential street on the edge of the Ilm park: at first glance the Haus Am Horn looks unremarkable. Yet it is the only Bauhaus building actually built in Weimar and one of the…
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Hannover
Hanover's New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) looks more like a palace than an office building: a grand early 20th-century structure crowned by a green copper dome and reflected in a park pond. Inside you'll find a soaring main hall with four ci…
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Berlin
The Oberbaum Bridge in Berlin is a red-brick landmark spanning the River Spree between the districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. Built in the 1890s in a neo-Gothic style, it carries an elevated U-Bahn line, a road, and walkways, and f…
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Berlin
The Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion) is one of the most historic sports venues in the world. Built for the 1936 Olympics, it has since hosted the 2006 World Cup final, the 2015 Champions League final and the Euro 2024 final. On non-…
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Dresden
Pfunds Molkerei (Pfund's Dairy) in Dresden's Neustadt district has been called the most beautiful dairy shop in the world. The small sales room on Bautzner Straße is covered from floor to ceiling in hand-painted Villeroy & Boch tiles, maki…
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Krummhörn
Pilsum Lighthouse near Krummhörn in East Frisia is one of the most photographed landmarks on Germany's North Sea coast. The small tower with red and yellow rings stands on top of the sea dike and looks almost painted against the flat marsh…
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Hamburg
The Reeperbahn in Hamburg's St. Pauli district is Germany's most famous nightlife street: about 930 meters of clubs, bars, theaters, musicals and neon, with a red-light history that earned it the nickname "the most sinful mile in the world…
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Mainz
They rise from the meadow like weathered teeth: in the Zahlbach valley in south-west Mainz stands a long row of grey stone piers. Locals simply call them the Römersteine, the Roman stones. They are the remains of an aqueduct that brought w…
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Heringsdorf
Ahlbeck Pier (Seebrücke Ahlbeck) on the Baltic island of Usedom is the landmark of the historic resort of Ahlbeck and one of the island's most photographed sights. A white pier house with a red roof and four green turrets sits on a platfor…
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Dresden
The Yenidze in Dresden is a former cigarette factory built to look like a mosque, complete with a colored glass dome and a chimney disguised as a minaret. Nicknamed the "Tobacco Mosque," this quirky landmark stands just west of the Old Tow…