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Featured Country: Germany
Germany is where the notion of Superman was born – in the guise of Übermensch. Its prowess in virtually every field, from the arts to science and technology, dwarfs its European neighbors. It is a land of great composers – Beethoven, Bach, Wagner – and great thinkers – Kant, Nietzsche, Marx. It is the land of Goethe, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Rudolf Steiner. It is a land of glorious castles and soaring cathedrals, and fabled wine regions besides. It is the land of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche. It is the land of Oktoberfest, the biggest beer bash on the planet, and of techno music, which continues to captivate the hip. Germany gave us two world wars to tear the world apart, and two monumental unions, that of Germany (Reunification) and that of Europe (EU), to bring it back together. To which we say, "Prost!"
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Rothenburg ob derTauber is one of Germany’s best-known little towns. It is a medieval walled town in an excellent state of repair. It has a population of 12,000 but around 2½ million day-trippers visit annually and just under half a million...
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Lübeck, Germany
Lübeck is a supremely interesting Hanseatic city on the River Trave in Germany's northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is also Germany's largest port on the Baltic Sea. It is most famous, however, for its Brick Gothic architecture,...
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Celle, Germany
Celle is a pretty town, situated in the north-central German state of Lower Saxony. It is most famous for its half-timbered houses – there are more than 480 of them in the center of its old town! – and its picturesque, 13th-century...
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Hildesheim, Germany
Hildesheim is one of the oldest cities in northern Germany, situated on the river Innerste, a tributary of the Leine, in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is best known for its rich store of half-timbered houses and Early Romanesque...
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Goslar, Germany
Goslar is a small yet lively historic town in the Harz Mountains, situated on the Gose River at the foot of the Lower Saxon Hills. It is most famous for the Mines of Rammelsberg, situated just to the south of town, which over the centuries -...
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Hann. Münden, Germany
Hann. Münden, formally Hannoversch Münden, is situated in the Weser Valley at the confluence of the Wera and Fulda rivers, where the two join to form the river Weser. It's a lovely little town, filled with half-timbered and Weser Renaissance...
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Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg is one of Germany's most romantic student towns, and a hugely popular travel destination. It is situated on the Neckar River in a steep valley in the Odenwald, in the German state of Baden-Würtemberg. It is a thoroughly enchanting...
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Wismar, Germany
Wismar is an interesting town halfway between Rostock and Lübeck. It shares with them a seafaring and trading tradition. Once a rich city, as several recently restored buildings testify, it somehow fell a bit behind and, with 45,000 inhabitants...
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