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Germany - tourist guide for holidays

Germany is a country which is worth your visit. It is full of natural wonders and historical monuments so you can surely spend here a nice time. Germany is a country you can visit on your own - or you can choose one of organized trips with a travel agency as well. Here you can find useful information about traveling in this country: prices, accommodation, itineraries, statistics and more.

Germany - the best places to see

Germany If you compare Germany with other countries of the world, you will see it is rather large country. And you will find here a lot of interesting places. We have chosen a few of them.
  • Berlin (Bundestag with dome + TV Tower + Brandenburg Gate + Museum Island + Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church)
  • Cologne (Cathedral - Kölner Dom + Synagoge + River Cruise)
  • Dresden (Zwinger Palace - art collections + Frauenkirche Church + SemperOper + aerial tramway)
  • Hamburg (Harbour Area + Sankt Pauli + boat trip)
  • Munich (city center + Nymphenburg Palace + Residenz + English garden + Munich Zoo)
  • Nuremberg (city center + castle + Courtroom 600 - Nuremberg Trials)
  • Bavarian Alps - beautiful landscapes + Neuschwanstein castle
  • Baltic Sea Coast - sea vacation region
  • Rhine Valley - nice river + hills with many castles and ruins

Germany - useful information

Religion:
~ Protestant: 34 %
~ Roman Catholic: 34 %
~ Muslim: 3.8 %
~ unspecified: 28.2 %
Religion - Germany
Germany: flagCapital: Berlin
Area: 357,022 km2
Number of inhabitants: 81,471,900
Currency: Euro, EUR, €
Language: German
Time zone: GMT+1 (GMT = London)
International telephone dial code: +49
Mobile phones system: GSM 900/1800
System of measurement: metric
Common languages: german, English in tourist places
Serious travel risk: none
Voltage in electric network: 230 V
Electric plug:
Electric plug - Germany

Germany - Travellers Forum

  Not very famous
Germany is not very famous country for travelling, but Berlin definitely is worth your visit. I admire how they connected the old communist part with the western part. And Berlin wall - it is absolutely unbelievable....
  Německo skvělé na výlety i nákupy
Často jezdíme do Českosaského Švýcarska a je to super oblast na výlety. Obzvlášť když už máte prochozenou severočeskou část. A pak samozřejmě čas od času vyrazíme na nákupy. Třeba Drážďany jsou na to super, protože jsou blízko a nakupuje se tam vážně dobře....

Germany - the map and typical itinerary

Germany - map
Itinerary 1: Berlin (Bundestag with dome + TV Tower + Brandenburg Gate + Museum Island + Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) - historical landmarks + culture - days: 2, Dresden (Zwinger Palace - art collections + Frauenkirche Church + SemperOper + aerial tramway) - historical landmarks + culture - days: 1, Nuremberg (city center + castle + Courtroom 600 - Nuremberg Trials) - historical landmarks - days: 1, Munich (city center + Nymphenburg Palace + Residenz + English garden + Munich Zoo) - historical landmarks + culture - days: 1, Bavarian Alps - beautiful landscapes + Neuschwanstein castle - trekking - days: 3, Cologne (Cathedral - Kölner Dom + Synagoge + River Cruise) - historical landmarks + culture - days: 2, Rhine Valley - nice river + hills with many castles and ruins - historical landmarks + trekking - days: 2, Berlin (Bundestag with dome + TV Tower + Brandenburg Gate + Museum Island + Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) - historical landmarks - days: 1
Itinerary 2: Berlin (Bundestag with dome + TV Tower + Brandenburg Gate + Museum Island + Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) - historical landmarks + culture - days: 2, Baltic Sea Coast - sea vacation region - trekking + relaxation at sea - days: 3, Hamburg (Harbour Area + Sankt Pauli + boat trip) - historical landmarks - days: 1, Cologne (Cathedral - Kölner Dom + Synagoge + River Cruise) - historical landmarks + culture - days: 2, Rhine Valley - nice river + hills with many castles and ruins - historical landmarks + trekking - days: 2, Berlin (Bundestag with dome + TV Tower + Brandenburg Gate + Museum Island + Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) - historical landmarks - days: 1
Itinerary 3: any combination of the previous itineraries

Prices of rooms and meals

Prices symbol
  • Cheap accommodation: $30
  • Medium accommodation: $90
  • Expensive accommodation: $260
  • Cheap meal: $4
  • Medium meal: $14
  • Expensive meal: $30
The prices are per 1 person (and 1 meal or 1 night) and are in US Dollars.
It is often possible to buy cheap meal on streets or in fast-food restaurants. Medium priced meal is usually available in standard restaurants, expensive meal in expensive restaurants. We do not include extreme prices of accommodation and food (for example luxurious apartments in high quality hotels). (Prices are usually very different in different places and in different seasons. In the main season may be in touristic destinations the cheapest rooms unavailable.)

Germany on the Internet

Are you looking for more information? On the Internet there are a lot of information. Here are some advices: Germany may have different names in different languages. For example Německo, Deutschland, Allemagne, Alemania. Use these names in search engines. It is good idea to precisely specify what are you looking for. If you need information about a place, use the name in a search engine. You may use other names of the place as well. If you need - for example - an information about history of the place, add the word history to the search engine.

What Others say

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields. Germany is in Western and Central Europe, bordering Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Austria and Switzerland in the south, France and Luxembourg in the south-west, and Belgium and the Netherlands in the north-west. It lies mostly between latitudes 47° and 55° N. It is the seventh largest country by area in Europe and the 62nd largest in the world. Most of Germany has a temperate seasonal climate in which humid westerly winds predominate.
Wikipedia

As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
CIA The World Factbook
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