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| Neuschwanstein looms romantially over Schwangau
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| View to the Bavarian Alps from Schwangau
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| Neuschwanstein
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| The Approach to the Main Gate
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| Main Gate
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| Courtyard (never completed)
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| Courtyard + Tower
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| Hohenschwangau Castle
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| View to Hohenschwangau Castle
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| Entry to Munich's Old Town
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Giant Frauenkirche
"The Everest of Munich churches"
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| Frauenkirche interior
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View from Frauenkirche Tower to Marienplatz
Neues Rathaus on left, St Peter's on right
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| View to the other tower
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| Marienplatz: Mariensäule Column
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| Neues Rathaus
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| Rebuilt Altes Rathaus
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| Old St Peter
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| View from St Peter's tower
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| Neues Rathaus, from St Peter
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| Frauenkirche from St Peter
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Covered up statue of Neptune
At the Old Botanical Gardens
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Neptune, looking oddly like Hercules
But that's actually a trident on his shoulder
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| Konigplatz complex
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| Konigplatz
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| Residenz entry
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| Neptune Statue (replica)
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Hall of Antiquities
Designed to impress. And it does!
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One of many Roman Imperial busts
Some classicial, some renaissance.
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| Highly ornate Bureau
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| Emperor's Hall
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| Neptune Statue (original, 17th c)
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| Perseus holding Medusa head (~17th c)
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| Court Chapel (An interior space.)
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| Small chapel
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| Ornate room. With mirrored Scotsman
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| Rsidenz: Cuvillie Theater
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| Bavarian Crown Jewels (1806)
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| Ceremonial Swords (1460, 1480, 1653)
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| Queen Therese's Ruby Jewelry (1830)
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| Assorted Noble Order Insignia
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| Ostentatious Table
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| Model of Trajan's Column
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| Documentation Center Museum
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Hitler & Julius Streicher
Streicher was based in Nuremberg
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| Giant Nazi Congress Hall
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| Congress Hall
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The original podium
(With Nazi emblems removed)
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| The podium
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The speaker's platform on the podium
You can just walk down and stand on it
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View over Zeppelin Field, from speaker's podium
(Most of the space has been repurposed now.)
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| Entry steps, etc, at edge of Zeppelin Field
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| "Law, History, Remembrance, Future"
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| Nuremberg Trials Courtroom
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| Nuremberg Trials Courtroom
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Two of the defendent benches
The front bench was used by Goring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel.
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| Nuremberg Kaiserburg (Imperial Castle)
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| Castle Chapel
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| Castle Courtyard
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| Sinwell Tower
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| Castle from Sinwell Tower
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| Old Nuremberg from Sinwell Tower
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| North view to Castle
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| Rather dull Altes Rathaus
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| St Sebald Church
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Schöner Brunnen fountain (14th c, replica)
An extremely ornate medieval fountain
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| Giant Frauenkirche Church
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| Rear view of Frauenkirche
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| St Lawrence Church
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| Weißer Turm
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Behaim Globe (~1492)
Oldest surviving terrestial globe. Note how the continents are shown too large.
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| Erdglobus Globe (1520). Western hemisphere.
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| Durer. Portrait of his Mother (1490)
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| Durer. Emperors Charlemagne & Sigismund. 1511/13
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| Astrolabe. Syrian, 1180-1280
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Bronze Age Gold Hat (11th-9th c BC)
Made from a single 310 g (11 oz) piece of gold
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| Gold Hat: Detail
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| Bronze caludron. Capua, 5th c BC
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Ostrogothic Jewelry, San Marino ~500 AD
Brooch in the shape of a Roman Eagle with a Christian Cross
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| Giant cover for Codex Aureus, ~985
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Imperial Treasure Reliquary ~1440
Kept suspended in Nuremberg Church of the Holy Spirit
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| Reliquary + reflection of painted base
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| Reichstag
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| "Dem Deutschen Volke"
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| Reichstag Dome
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| Base of Dome
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View down into Dome Interior
The legislative chamber is below
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| Top of Dome & Oculus
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| Drizzly view from Reichstag Dome
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| Historic note & beer drinking Bismark
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| Ritter Sports Ground Floor
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| Ritter Sports First Floor
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| All-you-can-eat tasting fountain
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| It's not bad at all!
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| You can request Special Blends
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| Brandenburg Gate (from West)
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| Brandenburg Gate (from East)
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| Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall)
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St. Marienkirche, with start of Xmas Market
Blocking access to Neptune Statue! It's an Outrage!
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| Very distant view of Neptune Statue
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| View to Museum Island
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Most of the Pergamon Museum is closed until 2037 (!). The Pergamon Panorama displays a 360° vision of the city, with the lighting
changing from day through night. The Panorama building also holds some of the best portable Pergamon marbles from the main museum.
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| Pergamon Panorama
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| The Pergamon Altar
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| Poseidon and Two Tritons
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| Poseidon ~160 BC
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| (Heavily Restored) mosaic parrot
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| Well preserved Weapon Relief
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| Athena (with replacement head) ~180 BC
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| King Attalos himelf (?) ~180 BC
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| Dragon of Marduk, Ishtar gate, 6th c BC
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| "Berlin Green Head", Egyptian, 10-50 BC
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3rd c AD Roman Tools, etc.
Looted by Germans, discovered in a gravel pit
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| 3rd c AD Roman padlocks, keys, etc
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| Colossal statue of Helios ~150 AD
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| "Berlin Gold Hat" ~1000 BC
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| Former Stasi HQ
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A guest lurks in the lobby
Felix Dzerzhinsky himself
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| Felix + Nervous Visitor
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Stasi employeer disguised as a tourist ~1985)
From a Stasi traning manual
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Inspirational DDR+USSR poster
"To learn from the Soviet people means to learn victory"
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| Stasi Emblem (echoes KGB)
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Felix again. With an inspirational quote.
"Be a Chekist. Only a person with a cool head, a warm heart and clean hands can do it. A Checkist must be cleaner and more honest that anyone else - he must be clear as crystal"
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Erich Mielke's grand formal office
Used for meetings and official guests
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| Erich Mielke's private working office
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| Felix, yet again
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| Photo of telephone recording room
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Camera for filming through wall
Using only a 1 mm hole on the far side
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| Tie Camera (Soviet design 1960s)
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| Button Camera (Soviet design 1950s)
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| Wallet with camera
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| Stasi break-in tools: five lock picks
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| Table steam generator, for opening letters
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