Topic: Germany

Berlin bubble artshow is first step to flying city

BERLIN (Reuters) - Shimmering giant bubbles carpeted with exotic plants are suspended within the vaulted hallway of a former Berlin railway station, in a new exhibition of the artworks of Tomas Saraceno.Visitors can enter the soap-like bubbles and experience a sense of ...

Germany to hand back stolen Namibian skulls

Germany will face up to a bloody chapter of its colonial past Friday when it hands back 20 skulls spirited away after what many historians call the first genocide of the 20th century.A delegation of 55 Namibians is in Berlin to attend ...

NY exhibit explores how memory reconstructs reality

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Israeli artist and filmmaker Maya Zack uses 3D technology to recreate the apartment of a Jewish family living in 1930s Berlin in a new exhibit that explores how the past is remembered."Living Room," which will be on ...

Travel Picks: Top 10 museum destinations

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If you're heading to Paris, you'll stop in at the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, in Washington the Smithsonian is a must-see and the Vatican in Rome should be on every museum-lover's bucket list. With that ...

Google offers Street View art gallery tours

Art lovers will be able to stroll through some of the world's most famous galleries at the click of a mouse after Google put the venues online Tuesday using Street View technology.In a collaboration with 17 leading galleries in nine countries, the ...

Cross-eyed opossum capturing hearts

BERLIN (Reuters) - She's middle-aged, gray-haired and stays up all night. Still, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is Germany's biggest media sensation, and she has not even made her debut at the Leipzig Zoo.Yet Heidi appears to be the next in a line ...

Cross-eyed opossum capturing the hearts of Germans

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - She's middle-aged, gray-haired and stays up all night. Still, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is Germany's biggest media sensation, and she has not even made her debut at the Leipzig Zoo.Yet Heidi appears to be the next in a ...

Geography

Mecklenburg-West Pomerania extends along the Baltic Sea coastal plain, from the Bay of Lubeck in the west, past the Darss Peninsula, to the Szczecinski Lagoon (Stettiner Haff) in the east. The central part of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania is traversed from west to east ...
Germany offers a good deal of diversity for visitors in terms of weather, landscape, history, and culture. Despite all the historical turmoil, today Berlin is a vibrant city to visit with plenty of museums, arts, and historical structures to partake.. The end ...

The contemporary city

In the past Munich suffered economically because of its distance from seaports and from the coal mines of the Ruhr region. Other medieval buildings include Munich's cathedral, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady; built 1468-88), whose massive cupola-capped towers are conspicuous landmarks; ...
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