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German family research is unusually rewarding and unusually confusing. The records are good and often digitized, but they are held by the parish, the town and the state rather than by one national archive, and the place your family came from may not be in Germany today. Work out the parish and the…
Germany is one of the easier European countries to travel in with a mobility requirement, and its historic sites are among the harder ones. Both are true at once. The modern rail and city transport network is largely step free and staffed assistance is bookable; cathedrals, castles and old towns…
Germany suits an unhurried trip unusually well. The distances are short, the trains are frequent and comfortable, the cities are compact, and the things worth seeing are concentrated rather than scattered. The two things worth planning around are the walking surfaces in historic centers and the…
Cologne Cathedral was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996 under criteria one, two and four. What makes it extraordinary is not its size but its timeline: construction began in 1248 and was not completed until 1880, and over those seven centuries successive builders kept faith with the…
Museumsinsel was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999 under criteria two and four. What is inscribed is a project rather than a collection: five museums built between 1824 and 1930 on 8.6 hectares in the middle of Berlin, each designed to sit organically with the art it holds, and together…
The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, meaning Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee, were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2025 under criterion four. It is a serial property of four palace complexes in the Bavarian Alps built between 1868 and 1886, and the most common…
The Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1996. It looks the way it does because it was not an Austrian provincial town but an independent state ruled by a prince-archbishop who hired Italian architects.
The Historic Centre of Vienna was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2001 and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger on 6 July 2017. That second fact is the most interesting thing about it and a travel page would normally never tell you.
The Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape was inscribed in 1997 and covers 28,637 hectares. What is inscribed is a region and an industry, not the photograph everybody has seen.
Austria has two travel calendars that barely overlap. The alpine west is governed by snow and by which mountain roads and lifts are open, and the eastern cities by a concert and market season that peaks when the weather is at its worst.