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Lonely Planet review

A nice place to relax is in the botanical Palmengarten (Palm Garden). It has rose and formal gardens, a playground for kids, a little pond with rowing boats and a mini-gauge train that puffs round the park (around €1.50 ). Nearby is the monumental IG-Farbenhaus, now part of the university's Westend campus.

This long, arcing stone building was erected in 1931 as the prestigious headquarters of IG-Farben, the German chemicals conglomerate that produced Zyklon-B, the deadly gas used in the concentration camps. After the war, the USA moved in and used IG-Farbenhaus as a military command centre and CIA office).