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1. Travel Tip:
Monschau Castle
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Monschau Castle was built in the early 13th century, and this almost impregnable fortress of the powerful Counts of Jülich was besieged in 1543 by the Emperor Charles V. The Monschau Castle is... Tags for this Travel Tip: castle monschau view awesome |
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2. Travel Tip:
Burg Prunn, a REAL medieval castle
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A lot of people I come across as a tour guide down to Neuschwanstein say to me "oh, but we wanted to see a REAL castle"... Well, Burg Prunn is a real medieval castle if there ever... Tags for this Travel Tip: castle prunn burg medieval |
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3. Travel Tip:
A visit to Heidelberg
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Heidelberg is a very nice city dominated by its mountain pinky castle ruins on the margins of the Neckar River. I highly recommend going to the other side of the river, sit down on a garden bench... Tags for this Travel Tip: castle university landscape |
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4. Travel Tip:
Erlangen
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Erlangen is a small city to the North of Nuremberg, being mostly famous as a university city. And when I arrived at the place – all the life here is dictated by the university – the city is so... Tags for this Travel Tip: university fountain castle |
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5. Travel Tip:
Bayreuth
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Bayreuth is a big city in Bavaria, close to Nuremberg and famous because of Wagner’s operas performed here. But the city has many other attractions, for example a nice town center with large... Tags for this Travel Tip: palaces castle church wagner |
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6. Travel Tip:
Gotha
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Gotha is a nice small city in Thuringia, very close to the province capital Erfurt. The city is actually very beautiful and has many attractions, but unfortunately it is usually missed by the... Tags for this Travel Tip: orangerie castle garden atmosphere |
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7. Travel Tip:
The Wartburg
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High above the Thuringian town of Eisenach is the castle Wartburg. It is one of the best preserved medieval castles I’ve seen around Germany. It has a large wall surrounding several inner courts... Tags for this Travel Tip: castle eisenach medieval |
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8. Travel Tip:
Weimar
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Weimar is a great German city, the city of the great poets Goethe and Schiller. On every corner of this town one finds some traces of their time – There are the houses of both poets, the summer... Tags for this Travel Tip: goethe schiller castle |
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9. Travel Tip:
Wernigerode Castle
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Wernigerode castle towers a high hill above the town of Wernigerode. It is one of the prettiest castles I have seen in Germany. It is like a small fairy tale castle – towers, walls, inner courts.... Tags for this Travel Tip: castle walls terrace |
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10. Travel Tip:
Neuschwanstein Palace (not castle...it's a Schloss not a burg)
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Actually, I am a tour guide that takes people to Neuschwanstein at least once every week, so I’m a little biased, but even after going to Neuschwanstein a couple hundred times, it’s still a... Tags for this Travel Tip: schloss palace castle neuschwanstein hohenschwangau |
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