Architectural, Cultural sights in Bonn
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Beethoven Haus
The famous composer first saw the light of day in 1770 in the rather plain Beethoven Haus. It's now the repository of a pretty static array of letters, musical scores, instruments and paintings. The highlights - his last grand piano, the huge ear trumpets he used to combat his growing deafness and a famous portrait - are all on the 2nd floor.
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Langer Eugen
Near the Plenary Hall, the high-rise nicknamed Langer Eugen, where members of parliament kept their offices, is now a UN campus. Officially retaining their former purposes are the stately Villa Hammerschmidt, still a secondary official residence of the federal president, and the neoclassical Palais Schaumburg, now serving as the chancellor's Bonn office.
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August-Macke-Haus
The expressionist painter August Macke (1887-1914) lived in Nordstadt in the three years before his untimely death on the battlefields in WWI. His neoclassical home is now the August-Macke-Haus, where you can soak up the master's aura in his re-created studio and see some originals; the finest works, though, are at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
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Kurfürstliche Residenz
The palatial 1705 Kurfürstliche Residenz was once the immodest home of the archbishop- electors of Cologne and part of Bonn's university since 1818. Its south side opens up to the expansive Hofgarten (Palace Garden), a popular gathering place for students.
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