Germany, a beautiful stranger

Overview :

If your idea of ​​a trip is an opportunity to enrich your cultural knowledge while taking a breath of oxygen you will find your happiness undoubtedly throw from home. Indeed, the cultural tourist potential of our German neighbor is not just in Berlin, its green and modern capital, border cities of Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne, Black Forest or Bavaria. Germany has an incredible wealth of valuable sites, real breeding ground of activities and discoveries of all kinds.

History :

Today among the countless silent witnesses of history, no less than 38 Points of Interest shall be entitled Heritage. Of historical, cultural or exceptional natural interest, these sites are located throughout the country. This geographical dispersion is therefore akin to an invitation to multiply the voyages of discovery of a country, certainly not well known, but of undeniable beauty and, to add insult to injury, is literally at your fingertips. So do not hesitate and go as soon as you can, to explore this heritage

Upper Rhine Valley :

Probably the closest to our region and therefore the most accessible route, this route in the Haut-Rhin is a special case. The more active you can, if they wish, to make the own steam. Riding their bikes, they will cross at a slow pace the wonderful scenery of the area, just to enjoy it. Dotted with castles and fortresses clinging on hillsides and vineyards, the river valley stretches some 65 kilometers between the ancient Roman city of Koblenz and Bingen and Rudesheim, through the legendary Loreley. 

And like other German regions around Upper Middle Rhine no lack of interests. So you'll have plenty of time, en route to Koblenz crossing cities like Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne and Bonn. In the first two cities, you can admire and even climb inside beautiful cathedrals, stroll through the shopping areas that fill with joy lovers shopping. In Bonn, is a former capital, with all the attractions inherent in this title, which awaits. Great artistic center, it houses two of the most important German art museums, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bonn and the Federal Art Gallery. If you like urban sightseeing, you may even consider growing a small tip to Frankfurt am Main, the financial heart of Europe, land of glittering skyscrapers that earned him the nickname 'Mainhattan'. 

In contrast to the modern, the region has not forgotten his past that left him a beautiful industrial heritage. You will be able to complete your discovery of the region through the complex of the Zollverein Coal Mine, which today is still a unique world-class but also a living cultural site operational site.

Weimar :

Romantic and highly cultural atmosphere on this route which takes you into the parks, castles and other classical sites in eastern Germany. Small in size, big in its effects, Weimar probably best crystallizes the atmosphere that awaits you on this journey back in time. Developed there over 200 years, Weimar was the intellectual center of Germany. The apartments and houses of the poets and their patrons are perfectly preserved, as well as extensive landscaped parks classical Weimar, founded by enlightened princes and became world famous thanks to the two German poets Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. Poets whose texts are available as sheet music that could have been written in Leipzig nearby town that will delight music lovers. It is indeed in this German city that many talented composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck left timeless prints. 

Frozen in time, Prussian castles and parks in the region are too. Thus, the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz or the Garden Kingdom, establishes a harmonious relationship between man and nature through new designs. This landscape of rivers, forests and vast meadows matches are castles, gardens and small constructions. It's the same in Potsdam where castles and parks of Sanssouci is an outstanding example of architectural and landscaping or Muskauer Park, a masterpiece of landscape architecture. 

And to conclude this trip, nothing beats a visit to Dresden. Through its many sights tourists, this city is like a true summary of the romantic and cultural spirit that bathes this magnificent region.

By Hicham Bichr