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Germany does have quite a few very nice lakes. Located in the Black Forest, Titisee is one of the cleanest and most beautiful ones.

Who would have thought that Berlin, a city not exactly known for quietude or deceleration, has an authentic village? Who needs Brandenburg? Berlin has a rural…

The tallest construction in Germany, Berlin's TV tower, is impressive. With a height of 368 meters (1207 feet), it does scratch the sky. The former GDR erected…

The train that left Berlin's 'Gesundbrunnen' station for Stockholm at 6:54 p.m. on Monday evening was not just any train. It was important enough to be seen off by Germany's Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer.

If goats and sheep had Facebook accounts, they would definitely give 'likes' to all posts about Britzer Garten park in Berlin. The grass they consume there does…

Gross Glienicker See is a great lake to jump into. The joy of being there might be marred by the fact that most of the lakefront is private property. But those who want to swim in the cleanest lake ever should go there anyway.

Awesome is a very appropriate adjective when used in the same sentence with the weekly market on Berlin's Kollwitzplatz in the city's posh Prenzlauer Berg…

Germany has a few medieval towns that are too beautiful to be real. Quedlinburg, a major tourist magnet, is one of those. Hundreds of thousands of visitors per…

On trains, the travel time between Berlin and Hamburg will increase substantially for a while, thanks to a giant renovation project. Covering the distance on the back of a donkey will not take as long as going on a bullet train.