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Fr Germany Berlin1 Berlin Cathedral Beside The Spree

Berlin

The reunited city of Berlin is once again the capital of Germany.

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Munich

Sprawling Munich, home to some 1.5 million people, is the capital of Bavaria and one of Germany's major cultural centers--only Berlin outranks it in terms of museums and theaters.

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Fr Germany Augsburg2 Maximilianstrasse And St Ulrich Church

Augsburg

Augsburg's 2,000 years of history have made it one of southern Germany's major sightseeing attractions.

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Fr Germany Cologne1 Colognecathedral Hohenzollern Bridge

Cologne

Cologne, the Rhineland’s largest city, is so rich in antiquity that every time a new foundation is dug, excavators come up with archaeological finds.

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Fr Germany Dresden4 Dresden By Night

Dresden

Dresden, once known as the “Florence on the Elbe,” was celebrated throughout Europe for its impressive baroque architecture and stunning art treasures.

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Fr Germany Dusseldorf1 View Of The Altstadt

Dusseldorf

Düsseldorf is a wealthy city--the richest in Germany.

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Fr Germany Frankfurt2 City Skyline And River Main

Frankfurt

The thriving industrial metropolis of Frankfurt, Germany's fifth-largest city and Goethe's hometown, may well be your first glimpse of Germany.

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Fr Germany Fussen2 View Of The Old Town

Fussen

Fussen, 74 miles southwest of Munich, is in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, at the end of Germany’s Romantic Road.

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Fr Germany Hamburg2 Speicherstadt

Hamburg

Hamburg has many faces. A walk down the neon-lit Reeperbahn at night revivesold memories of "Sin-City Europe."

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Fr Germany Heidelberg4 Spring

Heidelberg

Heidelberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not leveled by air raids in World War II and therefore still has original buildings from the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

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Germany Rothenburg ob der Tauber view

Rothenburg ob Der Tauber

If you have time for only one town on the Romantic Road, make it Rothenburg.

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Fr Germany Stuttgart Neues Schloss

Stuttgart

Unlike many prosperous industrial centers, Stuttgart isn’t a city of concrete -- two-thirds of the land inside the city limits is devoted to parks, gardens, and woodlands.

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Fr Germany Wurzburg Alte Mainbrucke

Wurzburg

For Germans, the south begins at Würzburg, one of Germany’s loveliest baroque cities (it’s 74 miles southeast of Frankfurt and 174 miles northwest of Munich).

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Fr Germany Bavaria2 Neuschwanstein Palace

Bavaria

Germany’s highly independent state of Bavaria has dozens of castles dotting its countryside, but none is as famous as Neuschwanstein, created by the extravagant Bavarian King Ludwig II.

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Fr Germany Dachau Dachau Skyline

Dachau

Just 10 miles from Munich, this former quiet artists' community gained notoriety as the home of the infamous Dachau concentration camp. It became a tragic symbol of World War II and Nazi atrocities but today Dachau has re-emerged as a place to revisit the past and look to the future.

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