Berlin
Berlin is a scene-stealing combo of glamour and grit that will fascinate anyone in love with history and culture, art and architecture, restaurants and nightlife.
Berlin is a scene-stealing combo of glamour and grit that will fascinate anyone in love with history and culture, art and architecture, restaurants and nightlife.
The largest state in Germany, Bavaria (Bayern) is well endowed with natural riches: snowy Alpine peaks, rushing streams and velvety forests that stir the romantic soul.
Charming world village with great beer and designer shopping.
With a population greater than that of Austria and Switzerland combined, North Rhine-Westphalia feels almost like a country unto itself.
Saxony has everything you could want in a German state: storybook castles peering down from craggy mountaintops, cobbled marketplaces serenaded by Gothic churches, exuberantly baroque palaces, nostalgic steam trains, indigenous Sorb folk...
Baden-Württemberg is one of Germany’s most popular holiday regions, rivalled only by Bavaria in its natural landscapes and range of outdoor activities.
Germany’s biggest port: boat-inspired architecture and a vibrant maratime history.
There are few city silhouettes more striking than Dresden’s.
This spectacular stretch of the Baltic coast is certainly one of Europe's better-kept secrets.
Confusingly, Lower Saxony lies in the north and evinces the sort of character opinion pollsters would describe as ‘Middle Germany’.
In Goethe’s Faust, a character named Frosch calls Leipzig ‘a little Paris’.
Local beer, avant-garde museums and the twin-spired Kölner Dom.
This otherwise unprepossessing region in former East Germany is renouned for two towns closely associated with the religious reformer Martin Luther – Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Lutherstadt Eisleben.
Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bavaria’s second-largest city and the unofficial capital of Franconia, is an energetic place where the nightlife is intense and the beer is as dark as coffee.
Ask many Germans their opinion of Stuttgarters and they will go off on a tangent: they are road hogs speeding along the autobahn; they are sharp-dressed executives with a Swabian drawl; they are tight-fisted homebodies who slave away to schaffe,...
Lacking the high profile of the Hanse city states Hamburg and Bremen to its north, Hanover (Hannover in German) is perhaps best known for its CeBit information and communications technology fair.
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