Tourist attractions Germany

The exterior of the Sony Center is dominated by the Bahn Tower, the glass headquarters of Deutsche Bahn, the state railway company. But it’s the interior of this glass and steel complex designed by Helmut Jahn which is particularly impressive. The 4 ..

The entry area consists of the Rondell , the Great Tower and the Elizabeth Gate . The southeast corner is formed by the Broken Tower gutted by the French in 1693. The Gothic hall of the Well Wing contains Roman columns originally from one of ..

At 2 964m, the Zugspitze is the highest peak in Germany. The exceptional panorama and skiing zone justify the considerable tourist facilities set up here. Starting from Eibsee , a rack railway train takes you up to the Zugspitzplatt station at 2 6..

Designed partly by Peter Joseph Lenné, Prussia’s most talented landscape gardener, Sanssouci Park covers nearly 300ha and features several hundred species of trees. The various palaces and buildings were constructed between 1744 and 1860. A World Her..

The main staircase leading to this palace provides visitors with an impressive view of its façade fronted by terraces. The rear façade facing the main courtyard is flanked by a semicircular colonnade. Inside the palace, the rooms have been skilfully ..

In the 19C, until German re-unification, Charlottenburg was a popular excursion just outside Berlin. Gradually, private houses were built here, as well as the first factories. People came to enjoy themselves at the Flora (1871-1874), where concerts..

The Kulturforum, designed by Hans Scharoun at the end of the 1950s, was created to house West Berlin’s works of art (most of the city’s cultural monuments were situated in East Berlin at the time). The museum, dedicated to music and the arts, is home..

The northern tip of Spree island is home to an incredible collection of museums. The result of a century of cultural policy which created one of the richest art collections in the world, the Museuminsel site includes the Pergamon Museum , the Altes..

Opened in 1844 in the park designed by Peter Joseph Lenné, the zoo is home to almost 13,000 animals. Its spectacular collection of rare species includes cassowaries, condors, harpy eagles, seals, okapis, beavers and pandas. Equally as impressive is t..

Known around the world for its reconstruction of ancient monuments, this is the most recent of the museums on Museum Island . Divided into three sections, its most interesting exhibits include the Collection of Antiquities ; the Museum of Near Eas..

The Philharmonic Concert Hall was the first building designed by Hans Scharoun for the Kulturforum between 1960 and 1963 (according to plans drawn up in 1956). It is one of the symbols of the Kulturforum and is home to the renowned Berlin Philharmo..

The superb collections of the Agyptisches Museum can now be seen in the renovated Neues Museum . The highlights include exhibits discovered at Tell-el-Amarna which date from the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten: two reliefs of Amenhotep III , Akhenaten’s..

Long divided between Dahlem Museum in the west and the Bode Museum in the east, Berlin’s collection of paintings was brought together in 1998 and housed in the Kulturforum; it is now one of the most important in Europe. The Gemäldegalerie is home t..

This ethnological museum is one of the largest in the world with nearly 400,000 exhibits. Pre-Columbian America is represented by stone steles from Cozumalhuapa, Mayan objects, and Aztec statues; the golden chamber with its magnificent jewels and..

Housed in three large rooms, the Collection of Classical Antiquities in the Pergamonmuseum features some remarkable fragments from Greek and Roman buildings. The most famous of these are the imposing Altar of Pergamon , a masterpiece of Hellenisti..

Following the transfer of the Art Gallery to the Kulturforum and the merger of the Islamic Art Museum with the Pergamon Museum , the exhibition areas at Dahlem now house the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art . T..

The Gothic cathedral with the tallest spire in the world (161m/528ft) seems to rise heavenward. Although construction began in 1377 the church was not completed until the end of the 19C. The absence of a transept emphasises the soaring flight of the ..

The Baden wine route is the German equivalent to the Alsace wine route in France. The itinerary leaves from Baden-Baden and winds its way from village to village past well-cared for vineyards planted on the lower slopes of the Black Forest.

This rounded mountain of the Black Forest rises to a height of 1 414m, dominating the Wiesenthal and the valleys, which, like the Münstertal, interlace the Black Forest's western fringe. When visibility is good, it offers an unparalleled view over th..

This tour will appeal to nature lovers taking them to the three main summits of the Black Forest: Schauinsland (1 284m), Belchen (1 414m) and Feldberg (1 493m) as well as to the massif's two best-known lakes: Schluchsee and Titisee . Stunnin..