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Alter Friedhof
The Alter Friedhof is located on Bornheimer Strasse in the Nordstadt. Robert Schumann (1810-56) and his wife Clara are buried here.
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Altes Rathaus
In the Altstadt's triangular Markt, the baroque Altes Rathaus stands pretty in pink with silver and gold trim. Politicians from Charles de Gaulle to John F Kennedy have waved to the crowds from its double-sided staircase.
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August-Macke-Haus
The expressionist painter August Macke (1887-1914) lived in Nordstadt during the three years before his untimely death on the battlefields of WWI in 1914. At his neoclassical home, now the August-Macke-Haus, you can see his re-created studio and some originals; the finest works, though, are at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
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Beethoven Haus
Beethoven (1770-1827) first saw the light of day in the rather modest Beethoven Haus. It now houses a rather static array of letters, musical scores, instruments and paintings. The highlights - his last grand piano, the huge ear trumpets to combat his growing deafness and a famous portrait - are all on the 2nd floor.
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Kurfürstliche Residenz
The palatial 1705 Kurfürstliche Residenz, once the immodest home of the archbishop-electors of Cologne and part of Bonn's university since 1818.
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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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Plenary Hall
About 1.5km south of the Altstadt along the B9, Bonn's former government quarter was, from 1949 to 1999, the nerve centre of West German political power. These days the Bundesviertel has reinvented itself as the home of the UN and other international and federal institutions. The airy and modern Plenary Hall where the Bundestag (German parliament) used to convene, now hosts international conferences.
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