A country with regions defined by food, dialect, traditions and history

Germany and its visitors are reaping the rewards of unity. Huge investments in infrastructure and services are not only erasing the Cold War dividing lines – the scars caused by World War II are also finally disappearing. Travellers are now likely to move around the country faster, dine better and experience newer attractions, such as the Reichstag’s glass dome. A lot has changed, Once you stop looking at Germany strictly in terms of east and west, you’ll start to see it as the Germans do: as regions sharply defined by dialect, food, traditions and history. For the best perspective, sample as many regions as possible. Booming Berlin, now the No. 1 tourist magnet, is the clearest benefactor of reunification. Travellers to the cultural centres of Dresden, Leipzig and Weimar in eastern Germany will find improved amenities there as well.

The north has the delightful old seafaring cities of Hamburg and Bremen. Along the Rhine and Moselle rivers are picturesque castles and steep, terraced vineyards. The Grimm Brothers collected the tales they heard in a trail of villages from Hanau to Bremen. In the south are snowcapped Alps, the alluring Black Forest, Munich, and Bavaria’s boisterous beer halls and rococo palaces and churches.

 UNSECO World Heritage sites in Germany

 Aachen Cathedral
 Speyer Cathedral
 Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Squar
 Pilgrimage Church of Wies
 Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl
 St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim
 Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
 Frontiers of the Roman Empire
 Hanseatic City of Lübeck
 Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
 Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
 Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System
 Maulbronn Monastery Complex
 Town of Bamberg
 Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg
 Völklingen Ironworks
 Messel Pit Fossil Site
 Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
 Cologne Cathedral
 Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
 Classical Weimar
 Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
 Wartburg Castle
 Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
 Monastic Island of Reichenau
 Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
 Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
 Upper Middle Rhine Valley
 Dresden Elbe Valley (Delisted 2009)
Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowsk
 Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
 Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
 Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
 Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
 The Wadden Sea
 Fagus Factory in Alfeld
 Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps