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Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion)
- The stadium is a must-visit for sports lovers and those interested in Olympic history.
- The on-site restaurant, Ostkurve, is open on non-event and event days.
- Wheelchair seating is available throughout the stadium, as are accessible restrooms and parking areas.
Palace of Tears
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Lake Mummelsee
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Marksburg Castle
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Olympic Tower
Built in 1968 to designs by Sebastian Rosenthal, the Olympic Tower is more than just a lookout point – constructed in time for the 1972 Olympic Games, the sky-high antenna rising from the top of the tower provides TV broadcasting for 6 million viewers, as well as providing digital TV for the entire southern region of Bavaria.
Otto Weidt Museum
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Lake Titisee
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Neue Wache
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Neue Pinakothek
The collection is largely 19th century art, with a bit of scope creep into the adjoining centuries, and it was first established by King Ludwig I whose philhellenism made Munich a showcase of neo-classicism. There is an impressive showing of English works – Gainsborough, Turner, Constable – as well as masterpieces of German and French Romanticism. Look out for Carl Spitzweg’s The Poor Poet, an affectionate dig at the Romantic cult of the impoverished, garret-dwelling writer. Many visitors will be delighted by the Impressionist collection, which boasts works by almost all of the movement’s leading lights as well as those who came immediately before or after: Monet, Manet, Cezanne and Gauguin, to name a few.
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Rheinturm
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Otto Weidt Museum (Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt)
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Marmorpalais
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Reeperbahn & St Pauli District
Hamburg’s alter ego is raffish St. Pauli and the Reeperbahn, forever synonymous with strip clubs and the Beatles.
The city’s red light district, the Reeperbahn is a pedestrianised street lined with clubs, brothels and sex shops. Its proximity to the port has attracted sailors for centuries, while more recently the Beatles cut their musical teeth playing the seedy clubs here back in the early 1960s.
The scene is still in-your-face but a little less brutal these days, and up-market restaurants and theaters hosting shows like Cats and the Lion King rub shoulders with the less family-friendly forms of entertainment.
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The Reeperbahn and St. Pauli lie just north of the port on the western edge of Hamburg.
The Reeperbahn heads west from the St. Pauli underground station, all the way to the fish market at Altona.
Nazi Party Rally Grounds
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Regensburg
Reichstag
- The Reichstag building is a must-see for first-time visitors to Berlin.
- Entrance to the Reichstag is free, but visitors must register in advance at the German Bundestag Service Centre.
- All visitors must present a passport or official identification card upon arrival.
- Security checks are carried out on all belongings; large bags are not allowed inside.
- Audio guides are available in 11 different languages.
- The Reichstag is fully wheelchair accessible.
Rheinfels Castle
The busy riverside promenade of St. Goar is lorded over by the sprawling ruins of Burg Rheinfels, once the mightiest fortress on the Rhine and a must-see. Built in 1245 by the local counts of Katzenelnbogen as a base for their toll-collecting operation, it withstood attack from 28,000 of Louis XIV's French troops in 1692, just one of the many attacks made on it. Eventually it was Napoleon and his French Revolutionary army who destroyed the place in 1797 with the help of explosives.
The castle's size and labyrinthine layout is astonishing. Not just children love exploring the gigantic vault cellar, subterranean tunnels and mine galleries, while keeping an eye and ear out for ghosts. In the only complete room of the castle there is a museum.
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St. Goar is in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage area. It is a lovely river area worth exploring on foot, bicycle, by boat or road, dotted with castles and picturesque views. It is about 38 miles (62 km) northeast of Frankfurt-Hahn airport.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum
The museum has an impressive permanent collection as well as space for temporary exhibitions. Free audio guides are available, and twice a day visitors can experience “In the Realm of Shadows,” a theater production among the Roman burial monuments. The museum is also an important research facility, and almost everything on display here was excavated by the museum itself.