The Aachener Domschatz is one of the most important treasuries in Europe with art related to Charlemagne, German royal coronations, liturgy, and relics. The Aachen Cathedral Treasury (Aachener Domschattz) is one of the largest and most important treasuries of medieval Christian artworks in Europe. The treasury has over a hundred works that are exhibited in … Read more
Getting to Maastricht Airport (MST) in The Netherlands is easy by car or bus and train combinations from Germany and Belgium. Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST) is in the region Beek near Maastricht in the Dutch province Limburg. It is also close to the German town Aachen as well as Belgian cities such as Liege and … Read more
Arminius on the Hermannsdenkmal is the largest sculpture in Germany. It commemorates the victory of Germanic tribes over the Romans in AD9 in the Teutoburg Forest. The 19th-century Hermannsdenkmal (Arminius Memorial) is a large bronze statue of Germanic leader Arminius mounted on a columned pedestal on top of a hill in the Teutoburg Forest near … Read more
Der Schiefe Turm der Oberkiche in Bad Frankenhausen leans at 4.93° more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa and has the largest overhang of any church in Germany. The leaning tower of the Oberkirche in the Thuringian town Bad Frankenhausen in central Germany has with a displacement of 4.6 m the largest overhang of any … Read more
The sandstone rock ridge of the Externsteine, often associated with the Saxon pagan irminsul, is a top sight to see in the Teutoburg Forest in Germany. The Externsteine is a row of large rock formations in the Teutoburger Wald near Detmold in the Lippe district of North-Rhine Westphalia. They are particularly noteworthy as there are … Read more
Cheap Venice museum and city passes save time and money as skip-the-line priority admission tickets to top attractions and sights. A variety of cheap Venice museum and city sightseeing passes allows visitors to save money and time when seeing some of the most popular sites in Venezia. Although many of the best sights in Venice … Read more
Top savings are available on brand-name fashion and sports clothes at the McArthur Glen Outlet shopping mall in Troyes in the Aube en Champagne region in France. Cheap brand-name fashion and discounted sports and casual clothing are great saving reasons to visit the McArthur Glen factory outlet shopping mall outside Troyes in the French Aube … Read more
The top sights to visit in Bückeburg include the palace with Schaumburg-Lippe mausoleum, the helicopter museum, and the Weser-Renaissance Stadtkirche. The top sights to see in Bückeburg near Hanover in Lower Saxony, Germany, are the Weser-Renaissance and Baroque Schloss Bückeburg with its mews (royal stables and riding school), park, and the magnificent Neo-Romanesque Schaumburg-Lippe family … Read more
The Stadtkirche in Bückeburg is the finest non-secular Weser-Renaissance building and a prime example of an early Protestant church in northern Germany. The early 17th-century Bückeburger Stadtkirche in Lower Saxony in Germany is a late Renaissance, early Baroque hall church with some Gothic elements. It was one of the earliest protestant churches in northern Germany … Read more
The Mausoleum of the Schaumburg-Lippe family in Bückeburg in Lower Saxony near Hannover in Germany is the largest private mausoleum in Europe. The County of Schaumburg-Lippe was the smallest state in the German Empire, which did not prevent its ruling house from building the largest private mausoleum in Europe in its capital Bückeburg. The neo-Romanesque … Read more