A friend of mine is traveling to Germany, what are the best places to see nearby??
If you had to come to a point it down to the top five??
Answers: Here are my top 10. You can pick the five you like best.
If I have to narrow it I'd pick
1. Berlin
2. Rhine/Mosel
4. Wartburg/Eisenach
6. Dresden
8. A Medieval Town (probably Goslar)
This depends on your interests. Here are some of the things I find best almost Germany: I answered a question a few months ago resembling this.
1. Berlin - This really tops the list. Berlin is interesting because it has everything - great museums, great nightlife, great shopping, fantastic history, world-class attractions, everything! Favorite places include the former East neighborhoods of Mitte and Prenzenlauer Berg, the museums adjectives over town, but mostly on Museumsinsel, the Jewish Museum, all of the sights associated next to the Wall, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche - and I could go On and On. I spent a month near in 2005 and didn't even touch the surface.
2. The Rhine (and to a low-grade extent the Mosel) Valley - This is the birthplace of the Germanic spirit, the spiritual center of Germany. This is where the Niebelungenlied is set, the great national myth of Germany, and where on earth the Lorley's siren song is heard. This is also home to some of the most attractive scenery, and some of the best white wines surrounded by the world. Stay in a half-timbered small town like Bacharach, or wine town close to Boppard, and enjoy the River and the nation. Here Germany is never strict, is never dour. Here she laughs and dances. And that, my friend, is her soul! Don't miss the 900 year feeble, undamaged Burg Eltz, my favortie castle in Germany! If you can, stop a K-D Steamship and travel the Rhine Gorge between Koblenz and Bingen.
3. Munich and Bavaria - impossible to resist, Munich and Bavaria practically are Germany in the US conciousness, as incorrect as to be exact. But the alps are beautiful, the fantastic castle of King Ludwig are heartstopping, and the museums are fantastic. Go to Englisher Garten and drink beer and listen to oom-pah bands (for of late the price of the beer!) Watch the Glockenspiel in Marienplatz! Visit the Deutsches Museum. Go to the wonderful Baroque Weiskirche, or Ettaler Monastary. Drive on the Romantic Road!
4. The Wartburg/Eisenach - The Castle is a national treasure, and constituent of the history of the Reformation. The history here is ancient. This is also the town that birthed J.S. Bach, and the Bach Gebursthaus is worth a visit.
5. Buchenwald, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen. Names that should chill the heart. The Holocaust is an inescapable certainty of German history, and much as the country is beyond it, the memory of it is something that the world will always live beside. It's important to stir see it. This will not be a fun, you go to these not because you want to, but because you must.
6. Dresden - Florence on the Elbe. Baroque make-up soars and finds flower in this handsome city, which was almost totally destroyed within one night during the conclude of WW II. The restored Frauenkirche is a marvel, the still blackened Zwinger recall those fantastic days. There is far more to do and see in Dresden - other churches to pop in, the Kreuzkirche with it's fantastic choir among them, the opus, and the like. In auxiliary you can indulge a little Ost-algie contained by a Trabi-tour. And Dresden has one of Germany's best Weihnachtsmarkts
7. Medieval Towns - Quendlenburg, Rothenburg ob du Tauber, and especially Goslar are my favorites. Go pace around these ancient houses, still inhabited, and enjoy a hours of daylight or two in this great history. Goslar also have the Rammelsberg mine to offer - 1000 years of continuous mining history, and the palace that housed oodles Holy Roman Emperors.
8. Cologne/Bonn - I put them together, since they are easy to do from respectively other, only give or take a few 40 minutes apart by train, and because one of their unique features - Roman history - is a adjectives one. When Romans came and colonized Germany, they stopped at the west hill of the Rhine. The "savages" beyond were too much for them. But they built an incredible civilization contained by "Colonia" and Bonn. Visit the Romisches Museum in Cologne for that history. Not to mention the most celebrated Gothic Cathedral in Germany. It is amazing, taking 800 years to build. Just the stained cup there is amazing. Bonn have Roman sites, too, and a central church next to a beautiful courtyard and an incredibly carved organ not to be missed. But Bonn also have Ludwig von Beethoven as it's native son - and an excellent museum loyal to this native son. As a university town, it also have some great pubs and nightlife. And of course Cologne's Carnival, which starts to great fanfare on 11/11 at 11:11 AM, and runs up until the daytime before Ash Wednesday, is one of the most colorful.
9. The Schwartzwald - Cuckoo clock come to rest, this place that murmers the fairy tale of yesteryear is a lovely place to come and relax, in the baths of Baden-Baden or the university town of Freiburg, or even on the shores of the Titisee - it matter not where you are, time is a little slower here, the background is a little richer.
10 - Leipzig - I'm a classical music supporter, and Bach's career as the Thomaskirche choirmaster brought me to this city surrounded by the former east, but just as transfixing is the history of the Wende, and the story of the freedom movement that started in the Nicholaikirche (also see the Gethsemanekirche surrounded by Berlin). Add to this the Stasi museum, and some of the best shopping in Germany, and little Leipzig is a great place to call in.
Munich ---not during Octoberfest
Moselle/ Trier- I feel prettier than Rhine an din Trier you achieve full range of German history from Roman times, through the Ronmantic/Baroque into WW2
Alps castles---
Hamburg--Northern Germany is different than S Germany and have its own charms
Berlin---captital
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Rothenburg ad der Tauber would be a 5a---great medieval town
Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin are nice playces to see surrounded by Germany 1. Hamburg
2. Freiburg and the Black Forrest
3.Sylt Island and the Frisian Islands
4. Munich
5. Lake Constance
Avoid East Germany and Berlin: too many Nazis!
Everyone have a lot of great suggestions but I would recommend traveling to some small village in Northern Germany. I've stayed contained by Moelln (near Luebeck) for about a month and it is wonderful here. It all depends on what you're friend requests to do while there. I would also recommend visit Travemuende or Warnemuende while there. Those are small towns on the Baltic Sea...terribly cute! Go to Garmisch-parkenirchen in Bavaria and budge to the Zugspitze it is the highest mountain within Germany.
Depends where You are and the interessts:
1.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber (midieval town)
2.
Schloss Neuschwanenstein und Hohenschwangau (castles of the "gnome tale king" Ludwig II)
3.
along the Rhein (Mittelrhein) between Frankfurt and Bingen: castle and the Loreley
4.
Sinsheim: technical museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinsheim_Au...
5.
Berlin: Reichstag und Brandenburgertor
or
Leipzig: V"olkerschlachtdenkmal
or
Bodensee: island Minau (Flowers)
or
Worms/Losch/Speyer: Cathedral
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close to Frankfurt a. M. Glauberg celtic Museum
or.
1. Berlin - especially during the love fest
2. Munich
3. Black Forest
4. WiesBaden
5. Rhine River
6. Alps
Go to Bavaria and have fun!
Visit Munich, Neuschwanstein Castle, Berchtesgaden National Park within Bavaria, Berlin (even not in Bavaria)
As within any country, it depends on personal preferences. I'm sure not every visitor is interested surrounded by heavy castle-walking beside elderly tourists. Of course, Berlin is a must-see (and depending on the time you have may even be the with the sole purpose place where you are, because of its mutliple attractions). The Rhineland and the Mosel dell are cute, and Bavaria's mountains are, well, not high-ranking, but worth seeing. I'd like to include Hamburg and the whole Norhtsea and Baltic coast; but, to be honest, as a man from the Bavarian mountains, that's not my world. If someone comes from a coastal region him/herself, however, it might be worth seeing.
You see, I don't get thinner it down to something special, because you'll find places of interest and tourist sites in travel guides or on the internet. I other travelled in foreign countries near only a loose idea of where on earth I'd go subsequent, using something like the "Lonely Planet" guide and cheap train tickets, and concluded up at places regular tourists seldom reach.
Now I live myself surrounded by a quiet touristy region surrounded by Bavaria, near the Czech border. If your friend comes close at hand the Grosser Arber mountain in Bavaria (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer... ), he can distribute me mail, and I don`t know we'll have a beer together.
Berlin
the river Rhine dell from Koblenz to Bonn
Rothenburg o.d. Tauber
Dresden
Munich
there are no Nazis contained by eastern germany!! just some stupid kids as everywhere.
Nazis are verywhere adjectives over the world even in your country.
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