Places

It's not like citizens of the GDR, the former communist German state, were world travelers. Few flew to New York, New Delhi or Seoul. The confined majority got a World Clock.

Frankfurt am Main is a small global city. In spite of having only 750,000 inhabitants, it accommodates the most important stock exchange in mainland Europe, one…

Berlin's State Monument Office just put part of Gendarmenmarkt under monument protection. This is about the buildings the GDR erected there in the 1980s and the square's configuration.

Even in Corona times, there is a place for Berliners who feel like walking a lot, looking at giraffes and getting lost in a huge labyrinth of paths. It is the…

In the early 1990s, when part of the excitement about Germany's reunification had evaporated, there were people who noticed something was missing in Berlin's…

Beauty is usually in the eyes of the beholder. In this case, it is obvious. Especially in fall, Berlin is stunningly pretty.

Our passports are supposed to let us travel the world. As it turns out, some of them give us access to quite a lot of countries while others do not. Owning a…

In Corona times, millions of Germans spent their summer holidays in their own country instead of going abroad. In many cases, they discovered places they did not know, including cities. Which are Germany's best 'summer cities'?