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Embark on an unforgettable family adventure through Germany with our comprehensive travel guide. Discover the diversity of this enchanting country, where historic landmarks, picturesque landscapes, and family-friendly activities await at every turn. Explore the heart of Germany's cities, where the past and present seamlessly intertwine. Our guide leads you through iconic landmarks, charming neighborhoods, and cultural hotspots, ensuring that every...
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La guía de Alsacia y la Selva Negra 2023 recopila lo mejor de esta región del centro de Europa que se extiende a ambos lados del Rin, donde Francia y Alemania se dan la mano. En Alsacia se detallan los puntos de imprescindible visita, desde grandes urbes como Estrasburgo y pueblos que parecen sacados de un cuento de hadas, como Colmar o Riquewihr, a castillos y bodegas que producen exquisitos caldos. También se recomiendan restaurantes especialmente...
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Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love. Lourdes equates with devotion. New York means energy. London is forever trendy.
Berlin is all about volatility.
Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory...
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Eva Braun is one of history's most famous nonentities. She has been dismissed as a racist, feathered-headed shop girl, yet sixty-two years after her death her name is still instantly recognizable.
She left her convent school at the age of seventeen and met Hitler a few months later. She became his mistress before she was twenty. How did unsophisticated little Fraulein Braun, twenty-three years his junior, hold the most powerful man...
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A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of the 19th century, the songs of Beethoven, Schubert,...
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