Germany - Finestre sull'Arte

Germany dedicates all of 2024 to Caspar David Friedrich, with exhibitions and events in several cities

On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (Greifswald, 1774 - Dresden, 1840), Germany is celebrating the most famous painter of GermanRomanticism with more than 160 events and major exhibitions...
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Bayreuth is not just Wagner. A fully preserved court opera house is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The city of Bayreuth, in northern Bavaria, is known to be the city of Richard Wagner, not because he was born there (he was in fact born in Leipzig), but because the famous composer spent the last ten years of his life here and because he elected it ...
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Saxony: did you know that it shares its two UNESCO sites with two other countries?

Interestingly, the only two Unesco World Heritage sites in Saxony, an eastern German federated state, share a common feature: each Unesco site is in fact shared with another country. In fact, Muskau Park is located partly in Germany and partly in Pol...
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Germany and its UNESCO sites: which ones to celebrate in 2023/2024

Ranking third in number of UNESCO sites after Italy and China, Germany has as many as fifty-one sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, forty-eight of them cultural and three natural. The first to enter the prestigious List was Aachen Cathedral w...
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