See the Romantic Old Town with Ceramics Museum and Art Nouveau Church
Top sights to see in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate, Germany include the romantic old town, the International Ceramics Museum, and church with Art Nouveau interior.
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Weiden in the Oberpfalz is a mostly industrial town but with an interesting historical core and an important ceramics museum. The St Joseph’s parish church is a large, neo-Romanesque church but with an interesting Art Nouveau interior. The International Ceramics Museum houses rotating exhibitions of world class ceramics from Bavaria’s excellent Neue Sammlung.
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Tags: Art Nouveau, Bavaria, International Ceramics Museum, Neo-Romanesque, Oberpfalz, Sightseeing in Bavaria, St Josef, Weiden
Posted by Henk Bekker
on May 08, 2009
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Belgian Properties on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List
UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list sites in Belgium include convents, town centers of Brussels and Bruges, belfries, ancient mines, Art Nouveau, and monuments to industry.
photo credit: Wolfgang Staudt
Belgium may be a small country but it has been at the geographical heart of trade and commerce in Western Europe for centuries. Belgium is rich in cultural sights and no less than nine sites have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List since 1998. The Belgian sites on the list range from prehistoric mines to Art Nouveau architecture.
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Tags: Art Nouveau, Bruges, Brugge, Brussels, Top Sights in Belgium, Tournai, UNESCO, Victor Horta, World Heritage Sites
