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A September Week in Germany: Ten Heritage Cities
Ten heritage cities in one September loop across Germany, west to east: the Gothic cathedral of Cologne, Charlemagne’s Aachen, Roman […]
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From Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) to Museum Island – Virtual Tour 360°, in the order we curated them.
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Ten heritage cities in one September loop across Germany, west to east: the Gothic cathedral of Cologne, Charlemagne’s Aachen, Roman Trier and Romanesque Speyer in the Rhineland; the Würzburg Residence, Bamberg, the Wartburg and classical Weimar through Franconia and Thuringia; then Bauhaus Dessau and the Museum Island of Berlin. Timed for Germany’s Tag des offenen Denkmals, the open-monuments day held every September. Each stop links to its full entry in the archive; download the GPX or KML for your own navigator.
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Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom)
Six centuries and 32 years in the making — Cologne Cathedral began in 1248, stalled for 300 years as Europe ran out of money and ambition, resumed in 1842 at…
Aachen Cathedral – Virtual Tour 360°
Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel at Aachen, consecrated in 805 CE, became the coronation church of the Holy Roman Empire and the first site ever inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier – Virtual Tour 360°
Trier's Roman monuments and medieval churches form a UNESCO site testifying to its role as an imperial capital and spiritual centre.
Speyer Cathedral – Virtual Tour 360°
The largest remaining Romanesque basilica in Europe and burial site of emperors, Speyer Cathedral represents a watershed moment in medieval architecture…
Würzburg Residence – Virtual Tour 360°
A magnificent Baroque palace in Würzburg, Germany (1720–1744), designed by Balthasar Neumann and adorned with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
Old Town of Bamberg
The best-preserved medieval city in Germany — a bishopric city on seven hills above the confluence of the Regnitz and Main rivers in Bavaria, whose fabric of…
Wartburg Castle – Virtual Tour 360°
The most symbolically charged castle in Germany — three events that shaped German history converge at Wartburg: the court of the 13th-century minnesänger…
Classical Weimar (World Heritage Site)
UNESCO World Heritage ensemble of eleven sites in Weimar, Germany, preserving the legacy of Goethe, Schiller, and Herder during the Enlightenment's most…
Bauhaus Building Dessau – Virtual Tour 360°
The Bauhaus Building in Dessau is the defining monument of twentieth-century modernism — a glass-and-concrete manifesto that reshaped architecture, design…
Museum Island – Virtual Tour 360°
A UNESCO World Heritage complex of five world-class museums on Berlin's Spree Island, built 1830–1930 to showcase the architectural and cultural…
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