Historic sites
Berlin Wall Memorial and East Side Gallery
Gesundbrunnen, Berlin
Two places to understand the Berlin Wall, which divided the city from 1961 to 1989.
Historic sites in Germany
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Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
Mitte, Berlin
Berlin's most famous landmark: a neoclassical gate of 1791, topped by the Quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses.
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Burg Eltz
Treis-Karden, Rhineland-Palatinate
A storybook castle hidden in a wooded valley above the Moselle, owned by the same family for more than 850 years and never destroyed.
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Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
Dachau, Bavaria
The first Nazi concentration camp, opened in 1933 and the model for those that followed.
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Heidelberg Castle and Old Bridge
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg
The romantic red sandstone ruins of Heidelberg Castle rise above the old town and the River Neckar.
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Marienplatz and Munich Old Town
Munich, Bavaria
The heart of Munich since the 12th century, overlooked by the neo-Gothic New Town Hall, whose Glockenspiel plays at 11 am and 12 noon (also at 5 pm f…
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Neuschwanstein Castle
Schwangau, Bavaria
The fairy-tale castle built from 1869 for King Ludwig II of Bavaria, perched on a crag above a gorge in the foothills of the Alps.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria
One of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe, on the Romantic Road in Franconia.
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Sanssouci Palace and Park, Potsdam
Potsdam, Brandenburg
The summer palace of Frederick the Great, built in 1747 on top of terraced vineyards, in a huge park of gardens, fountains, temples and more palaces,…
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Bremen Market Square and Town Hall
Bremen
Bremen's main square is surrounded by gabled merchants' houses, the Gothic cathedral and the ornate Town Hall, whose Renaissance façade and great hal…
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Eagle's Nest (Kehlsteinhaus), Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden, Bavaria
A mountain house built for Hitler's 50th birthday on a ridge at 1,834 m above Berchtesgaden, now a restaurant with spectacular views over the Alps an…
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Hohenzollern Castle
Bisingen, Baden-Württemberg
A spectacular 19th-century castle on the summit of Mount Hohenzollern, the ancestral seat of the Prussian kings and German emperors.
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Holstentor and Lübeck Old Town
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein
Lübeck was the 'Queen of the Hanseatic League', the medieval trading network of the Baltic, and its old town, on an island ringed by water, is a UNES…
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Nuremberg Imperial Castle and Old Town
Nürnberg, Bavaria
The Kaiserburg, the castle of the Holy Roman Emperors, stands on a sandstone rock above Nuremberg's old town, with views over the red roofs from its …
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Porta Nigra, Trier
Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate
The largest Roman city gate north of the Alps, built around 170 AD from huge sandstone blocks without mortar, and darkened over the centuries, hence …
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Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt
A small town at the edge of the Harz mountains with more than 1,300 half-timbered houses spanning six centuries, one of the largest collections in Ge…
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Wartburg Castle, Eisenach
Eisenach, Thuringia
A medieval castle on a hill above Eisenach in Thuringia, founded in 1067 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Zollverein Coal Mine, Essen
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Once the largest coal mine in Europe, closed in 1986 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a symbol of the Ruhr region's change from heavy industr…