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Heidelberg

  • Heidelberg Castle (Heidelberger Schloss)
    Heidelberg Castle (Heidelberger Schloss)
    The famous Heidelberg Castle ruins overlook the Old Town. The construction lasted over 400 years and consists of ramparts, outbuildings and palaces in all styles from Gothic to High Renaissance. The two dominant buildings at the eastern and northern...
     
  • Castle Gardens (Schlossgarten)
    Castle Gardens (Schlossgarten)
    Before the Thirty Years War, contemporaries considered the Castle Gardens as being the "Eighth Wonder of the World."
     

Münster

  • Castle
    Castle
    The former Prince Bishop’s residence was built from 1767 to 1787 as a three-winged building. Today, the castle forms the main building of the university.
     
  • Mühlenhof Open-Air Museum
    Mühlenhof Open-Air Museum
    More than 30 farm houses and other structures have been transported from throughout Westphalia to create this village-style open-air museum on the shores of the Aasee. Visitors can get an excellent idea of life on the farm, traditional customs and...
     

Potsdam

  • Sanssouci Palace
    Sanssouci Palace
    Sanssouci Palace is the most popular of Potsdam’s palaces, a charming rococo masterpiece set atop a hill overlooking the Havel landscape.
     
  • Park Sanssouci
    Park Sanssouci
    The Park Sanssouci covers 724 acres—compared to Central Park’s 840—and has three palaces: the rococo Sanssouci Palace, the Baroque New Palace and Charlottenhof Palace. In its entirety, Sanssouci presents an ensemble of palaces and gardens that form...
     
  • Charlottenhof Palace
    Charlottenhof Palace
    The small Charlottenhof palace and the park area around it is an outstanding example of romantic classicism in Germany, an artistic entity of buildings, gardens and landscape park.
     

Trier

  • Palace Garden
    Palace Garden
    The Palace Garden, in the heart of the city, is the crown jewel of garden architecture. Baroque garden artistry is framed by exquisite examples from art and history: an enchanting park in which one can experience both the past in stone and the...
     

Würzburg

 
 

Recommended Reading


Gothic Architecture
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Early Medieval Architecture
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The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750
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Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages
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