Rough Guides Snapshot Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia

Rough Guides Snapshot Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia

Rough Guides

Language: English

Pages: 287

ISBN: B00UA3D158

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The Rough Guide Snapshot to North Rhine-Westphalia is the ultimate travel guide to Germany's most populous state. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Cologne's cathedral to Bonn's museums and eating and drinking in Düsseldorf.

Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer.

Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Germany, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Germany, including transport, food, drink, costs, festivals and outdoor activities.

Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Germany.

Full coverage: Cologne, Brühl, Bonn, The Siebengebirge, Aachen, Wuppertal, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund, The Lower Rhine, Soest, Paderborn, Detmold, Lemgo and Münster

(Equivalent to 112 printed pages.)

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indoor excess. An avenue leads across the park to the little lodge of Jagdschloss Falkenlust which, though smaller in scale than Schloss Augustusburg, is similar in spirit, and for which – unlike in the Schloss – you don’t have to join a tour. Clemens August used it for entertaining and for trysts with his mistresses. < Back to Brühl Max Ernst Museum Comesstr. 42 • Tues–Sun 11am–6pm • €6 • www.maxernstmuseum.lvr.de Schloss Augustusburg aside, Brühl’s other cultural claim to fame is the Max

people in the end.” But not even they could ban his most popular work, the Loreley, which was tolerated – in poem form and in the musical setting by Friedrich Silcher – as a “folk song”. Heine was deeply influenced by the spirit of the French Revolution, which he imbibed during the years of the French occupation of Düsseldorf. A radical and a trenchant critic of German feudalism, he spent much of his life in exile in Paris, and died there in 1856. Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf Berger Allee 2 •

interspersed with postwar austerity housing and a few regrettable eye-sores, and is only intermittently picturesque. < Back to Paderborn Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Fürstenallee 7 • Tues–Fri 9am–6pm, Sat & Sun 10am–6pm • €7 • hnf.de • Bus #11 From the city centre, a riverside path along the park-like banks of the Pader brings you after 3km to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, which claims to be the world’s largest computer museum and takes a broad perspective on its subject, the exhibits

eastern states of the former GDR, fuelled by depressed economies. Small-minded attitudes also often exist here, and xenophobic neo-Nazi thugs can target those who look “foreign” – non-white. Paradoxically, eastern German city centres, and German cities in general, are safer in comparison with other European cities. Petty crimes such as pickpocketing or bag-snatching in shopping precincts or busy U-Bahns are the most likely crimes you’ll encounter. As far as personal safety is concerned, even

and size – and eight different coin denominations, including 2 and 1 euros, then 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 cents. Euro coins feature a common EU design on one face, but different country-specific designs on the other. All euros can be used in the eighteen countries that share the currency (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain). At the time of writing, €1 was worth

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