Germany

As Europe’s largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent’s economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring eastern productivity and wages up to western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.

Germany Tourism Information

Official Tourism Site
Germany.Travel

Other Sites

Germany101.com
Tourism.de
Live-Like-A-German.com

The Best of Germany

Here is a break down of some of the most interesting and visited places. Cities or areas listed will always have more than just one thing see and do. With the popular cities or areas we list some of the best known, which should go on everyone’s, must see list when they visit.    

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Baden

Black Forest

Freiburger Münster

Heidelberg (Heidelberg Castle, Altstadt, Old Bridge)

Lichtenstein Castle

Stuttgart (Mercedes-Benz Museum, Prosche Museum)

Ulm Münster

Bavaria

Augsburg

Bamburg

Berchtesgaden (Eagle’s Nest, Konigssee)

Chiemsee

Dineklsbühl

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Hohenschwangau Castle

Lake Constance

Landshut

Linderhof Palace

Neuschwantstein Castle

Nuremberg (Imperial Castle, Konggresshalle, Zeppelin Field, Documentation Center, Palace of Justice)

Passau

Regensburg (St. Peter Cathedral, Stone Bridge, Valhalla)

Romantic Road

Rothenburg ob der Tauber 

Würzburg

Bayreuth

Zugspitze

Berlin

Alexanderplatz

Brandenburg Gate

Berlin Cathedral

Berliner Fernsehturm

Charlottenburg Palalce

Checkpoint Charlie

East Side Gallery

Gemäldegalerie

Gendarmenmarkt

Holocaust Memorial

Kaiser Wilhelm Church

Mauerpark

Museum Island (Altes, Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode, Neues, Pergamon)

Oberaumbrücke

Potsdamplatz

German Historical Museum

Tiergarten

Neue Wache

KaDeWe

Reichstag

Brandenburg

Potsdam

Sanssouci Park (Charlottenhof Palace, Neue Palace, Orangery Palace, Sanssouci Palace, Historic Mill)

Glienicke Bridge

Hamburg

Miniatur Wunderland

Reeperbahn

Maritime Museum

Townhall

Hesse

Frankfurt am Main (Römerberg, Iron Foot Bridge, Goethe House)

Marksburg

Rüdesheim am Rhein

Munich

BMW Museum / Welt

Dachau Concentration Camp

Deutsches Museum

English Garten

Frauenkirche

Hofbräuhaus

Marienplatz

Munich Residenz

 Nymphenburg Palace 

Marienplatz

Olympiapark

Odeonplatz

 Rathaus-Glockenspiel 

Pinakothek Museums

Viktualienmarkt

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Schwerin Castle

Rügen Cliffs

Rügen Island

North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen Cathedral

Cologne (Cologne Cathedral, Hoenzollern Bridge)

Dortmund

Düsseldorf

Rhineland-Plantinate

Koblenz (Deutsches Eck)

Mainz (Gutenberg Museum)

Romantic Rhine & Gorge (Bacharach, St. Goar, Boppard)

Speyer

Ertz Castle

Worms

Trier (Porta Nigra)

Saarland

Saxony

Chemnitz

Dresden (Frauenkirche, Fürstenzug, Dresden Castle, Semperoper, Zwinger)

Leipzig (Volkerschlachtdenkmal, Bach Museum)

Saxon Switzerland National Park

Saxony-Anhalt

Harz Mountains

Magdeburg

Quedlinburg

Schleswig-Holstein

Holstentor

Lübeck

Sylt

Thuringia

Erfurt Cathedral

The Regions of Germany…

Eastern Germany
Central Germany
Northern Germany
Southern Germany
Western Germany

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