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Muritz is the second lake in Mucklenburg-Virpommern, northen Germany. Its maximum depth is 31 metres. The lake is fed and drained by the river Elde and the area around the lake is also a national park, situated roughly in the middle betwwen Berlin and Rostock. Total area is 318 km.

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Call it impersonal or call it a very private dining experience. In Nuremberg, Germany has opened a restaurant which is being billed as the world’s first waiterless sit-down restaurant.

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There is always connection between history and design. I present Water Tower in Essen, Germany which has been transformed from historic water tower into an imaginative space for living and working.

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With more than 800 years of history, the Leipzig Trade Fair is one of the oldest in the world. Today it devotes particular attention to the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Authors and readers meet here for Germany’s second-largest book fair, the literature festival “Leipzig Reads”, and in the project “Art at the Trade Fair” the exhibition grounds become a space for art works. The Leipzig Trade Fair successfully unites past tradition and the present. The world’s oldest trade fair venue, it is also one of the most modern. It was only in 1996 that the impressive new complex was opened, its futuristic glass and steel architecture symbolising transparency and cosmopolitan thinking. As a modern provider of services with long years of trade fair experience Leipziger Messe is able to offer customers and partners the full spectrum of its expertise. This is where custom trade fair concepts are developed to satisfy the needs of exhibitors and visitors alike.

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Berlin‘s Propeller Island City Lodge may be the most bizarre example of the artist-designed hotel trend. Each of the 30 rooms is radically different in its decor, its theme, and its presuppositions, and each may delight or appall you with its quirks. This innovative and unique hotel made up of 30 themed rooms is the brilliant work of German artist Lars Stroschen from the Distorted Room, where the floor steeply slopes and nothing is quite right to the Dwarves Room, only 1.4 m high and full of small woodland people, from the Forest room, where your mattress floats on a series of logs surrounded by red walls through to the Gruft room, where your two separate beds are white coffins. Therapie is an all-white, minimalist room whose mood changes with the color of the lighting, which you can adjust at will. “The main idea behind Propeller Island,” explains Stroschen “was to try out my fantasies, to see if they could work.”

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The Loveparade, the infamous street party for techno music fans, has found a new home in Germany’s Ruhr region after Berlin rejected it. Essen will be the first stop in the popular event’s five-year tour. As it has been a hot topic of discussion countless times in the past, it seems that the location of the German Super Party “Loveparade” has finally been confirmed for 2007! Finding its way to Essen, in the heart of the industrial district, in Ruhr, this incredibly green and lush landscape will be hosting this world renowned event for the next 5 years.

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The Victory Column (Germany) is a famous sight of Berlin. The Victory column (Siegessule) is next to Brandenburg Gate, German Parliament, Television Tower and Berlin Cathedral one of the most significant monuments in Berlin. It was originally located at the Knigsplatz (present-day Platz der Republik), the square in front of the Reichstag. The Victory Column stands at 61.5m high and provides excellent views of Berlin from the center of Tiergarten at the junction of five main roads. It is huge and spectacular.

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Alexanderplatz is a large open square and public transport hub in central Berlin, near the Spree river and the Berliner Berliners often call it simply Alex. Originally a cattle market, it was named in honour of a visit of the Russian Emperor Alexander 1to Berlin on 25 October 1805. The original Alexanderplatz (affectionately known as “Alex” by Berliners) was completely flattened during the War. Its present day appearance is a prime example of East German town planning: a huge, windswept pedestrian area surrounded by featureless 1960s high-rises.

The World Clock in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. DB Station at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. This view of the station was taken close to the world clock and shows the Staenbahn tracks which loop around to the right after passing under the tracks on the left of the photo. The station is served by the DB and the Berlin S-Bahn and one of their 481 class EMUs can be seen departing eastwards.

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A Beer Festival is an organised event during which a variety of beers are available for tasting and purchase. HPCC-06 will take place immediately before Oktoberfest, the world’s biggest beer festival. 22nd September to 9th October 2007. For 16 days around 7 million visitors come to Munich and consume approximately 6 million liters of beer in 14 giant beer tents. The opening ceremony will take place on Saturday September 16th, 2007. The parade is traditionally part of the two-week festival gathering visitors from all over the world. Organizers of the world’s largest folk festival expect up to six million visitors to enjoy Bavarian beer in huge tents and exciting roller coasters on the fairgrounds. All activities take place in vast marquees hosted by the various Munich breweries and seating several thousand revellers apiece. The beer, the food and the music all combine to create an atmosphere which is unequalled.

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The Brandenburg Gate is a former city gate and the symbol of Berlin, Germany. It is located between the Pariser Platz and the Platz des 18 Marz and is the only remaining gate of a series through which one formerly entered Berlin. One block to its north lies the Reichstag. The sandstone construction, built from 1788–91 to plans by C.G. Langhans, has 12 Doric columns and is based on the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens. On both sides, six Doric columns support the 11 meter-deep transverse beam, dividing the gate into five passageways. In 1794 the building was crowned with the quadriga and goddess of victory created by Schadow, which face eastwards towards the city center. The Brandenburg Gate was surrounded by further buildings which were destroyed in the war.

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