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Kiel
Rostock
Lübeck
Hamburg
Locator Map
Bremen

Potsdam Berlin Berlin (see pp500–513), since
Hanover 1990 once more the capital of a
united Germany, combines relics
Magdeburg
Münster of its imperial past, such as the
Berliner Dom, with modern
landmarks such as the towering
Essen Dortmund Leipzig Fernsehturm.
Kassel
Düsseldorf Dresden
Cologne GERMANY Chemnitz
(see pp494–551)
Koblenz
Frankfurt Munich (see pp518–26) is the cultural capital
am Main of southern Germany. It owes many of its
Bayreuth great buildings and art collections to the
Trier Mainz
Würzburg kings of Bavaria. The city is also remarkable
for its 18th-century churches, such as the
astonishingly ornate Asamkirche.
Nuremberg
Stuttgart
Linz
Ulm
Vienna
Freiburg Munich
im Breisgau
Salzburg
Basel
Innsbruck AUSTRIA
Zürich (see pp552–75) Graz
Bern
SWITZERLAND Klagenfurt
Lausanne (see pp576–95)
Geneva

Vienna (see pp556–65) was largely the the creation
of the 18th- and 19th-century Habsburg emperors.
More modern landmarks include the ferris wheel
Salzburg (see pp568–9) trades on the legacy in the Prater funfair, immortalized in The Third Man,
of Mozart, its most famous son, and stages the 1949 film starring Orson Welles.
one of the world’s great music festivals.
It also boasts a rich architectural heritage
from the prince-archbishops who ruled
the city from 1278 to 1816.

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