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Top Ten in Weimar

What can you, should you, and is worthwhile seeing, experiencing or tasting while you are here? We have ten suggestions that can be modified according to your preferences, of course. In order to obtain an initial overwiev of the city, we recommend a guided walking tour.

2. Goethe's Home

and the Goethe National Museum on Frauenplan provide the most important evidence of the Weimar classics. Goethe spent 50 years of his life here.

3. The Bauhaus-Museum

displays a selection of the collection of works by the Bauhaus that was founded in Weimar in 1919 and caused a worldwide furore in design and architecture.

4. The City Palace

is a magnificent ducal residence and houses the former grand-ducal art collection dating from the Middle Ages until Modernity around 1900.

5. Buchenwald memorial

is an important venue to recall the crimes committed during the Nazi period. 500,000 visitors come here every year.

Park on the River Ilm

6. Park on the River Ilm

is a place for intellectual activity, relaxation and entertainment - both in the past and the present. Goethe sought the closeness to nature - and found it.

 

7. Opera, theatre or dance

at the German National Theatre Weimar that Goethe founded more than 20 years ago as a court theatre.

8. The Rokoko hall

at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek (historical library) that once again gleams in new splendour. There are one million volumes at the new and old library.

9. Thuringian Bratwurst

is the tradition-minded choice among the normal selection of fast food. It tastes best with mustard.

10. Coffee and cake

The cake from Thuringia is always worth a sin! So try out in one of the cosy cafès in Weimar - you can burn the calories during a walk in the parkgrounds.

http://www.weimar.de/en/tourismus/sights/top-ten-in-weimar/20. May 2013

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