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Potsdam, once a garrison town, became the preferred residence of Prussian rulers and now has more palaces and pavilions than any other city ...

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is the most prominent ruin among the Berlin sites that stand as monuments to World War II bombing. The damage...

Potsdam, more than Berlin, was the home of the Hohenzollern princes who created Prussia, the most ambitious and vital of German states.

The...

Bonn‘s Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland has a significance beyond most German history museums. It charts the return of Ger...

Schloss Sanssouci, the superb summer palace on the terrace above the Weinberg, is today Potsdam's chief visitor attraction. At its height, i...

Cologne has a longer history than most German cities and this is thanks to the Romans.
Historic Cologne’s German past was built on its Roman ...

Münsterplatz is the modern Bonn’s central public space, reflecting its historical significance and variety. But it is also a fascinating his...

Most visitors look on Cologne’s cathedral as a mighty medieval marvel. It’s not.

In fact, much of the city’s Dom St Peter, or Kölner Dom, i...