You'll find fairly similar levels of culture, arts, and history when visiting both Switzerland and Germany. Other attractions in town include the Martin von Wagner Museum, the Würzburg Court Gardens, the Marienberg Fortress, and the Würzburg Cathedral & Museum. One of the most well know sights is the 18th-century Residenz palace. Würzburg: The Franconian city is known for its history and architecture. Make sure you check out Kaiserburg, the Nuremberg Trials Memorial, and Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The history and charm, combined with interesting sights make it a top place to visit in Germany. Nuremberg: It's well established on the tourist circuit and it's easy to see why. Many of the city's oldest and most famous museums are found on Museum Island. Plenty more can be found in every corner of the country, though.īerlin: Famous landmarks include the rebuilt Reichstag, the Berlin Wall Memorial, and Berliner Fernsehturm. Some of the best museums in Germany include the Museum Island area of Berlin which showcases a combination of art and ancient history, the Mercedes-Benz museum dedicated to the automobile, Zwinger Palace in Dresden which hosts historic art and antique weapons, the German Museum in Munich which focuses on Science, and the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. With thousands of museums, it might be difficult to decide where to go first. You'll find a good number of museums and monuments packed into Germany. Bern, Geneva, Zurich, and Lucerne also have museums of all types, whether they showcase art, history, technology, or culture. Basel, for example, is known as the city of museums because it offers so many from art to culture to toys to science. Multiple cities offer plenty of opportunities to explore museums. With a variety of museums, monuments, and historical sights, a trip to Switzerland can be an interesting and educational experience. Time Travel Turtle was a guest of Baden-Wurttemberg and DB Bahn but the opinions, over-written descriptions and bad jokes are his own.Visiting museums and landmarks is a fun activity in both Switzerland and Germany. I’ve put together a few photos from my walk and I hope you can appreciate it too. Trekking through this region, I can see why you might never want to leave. It sounds like heaven for a nature-lover. You don’t have to drive to a ski resort.” “You build your own little treehouses, and of course in winter you can just start skiing from your house. “Growing up here you play in the woods all the time,” she says. And this is the little world that Sabrina grew up in. It’s a little world of its own amongst the dense foliage. ![]() This is not a remote area, as such, but it feels so isolated from Freiburg or any other large towns. ![]() Making my way through this region up to our agreed meeting point, I pass through little towns nestled between mountains. ![]() This is the highest peak in the Black Forest.įeldberg is accessible from Freiburg, first by train and then by a short bus trip. The town shares a name with the Feldberg mountain, which is looming above us. ![]() We’ve started walking from the town of Feldberg, about 1200 metres above sea level. I love being out in the nature when you see the change between the seasons.” “The plants are not growing anymore, everyone’s getting kind of in the winter sleep, so it’s all about silence and coming down. “It’s the beautiful moment when you know everything is going to calm down,” Sabrina tells me when I ask her about the snow. I can’t help myself – there’s something about the snow, the way it catches the sun, the contrasts it forms against the tree trucks, and the sharpness of all the images containing it. She’s patient as she waits for a million photographs to be taken along the way. Local Sabrina Roseler is guiding me along the track, towards a lake at the bottom where we’ll stop for lunch. The clouds are dry but it feels like it’s raining under this sky of heavy leaves. Trekking through the forest, it drips constantly onto my head. By the morning, the trees’ branches are supporting a healthy layer of snow.Īs the sun crosses the sky, it all starts to melt. In the mountains outside Freiburg, the unusually early blanket of frost has turned the Black Forest white. Who knew that snow could fall so early? It’s been unseasonably cold in the southwest of Germany this time of year, but I did not expect to find myself in the middle of a snowfight.
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