Kassel - Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe UNESCO Site | Discover Germany
The baroque park with its castle, the Hercules Monument, and cascades dates back to the early 18th century. As a unique cultural ensemble, in 2013 the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe was selected to become Germany's 38th UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Berlin – Germany’s capital city has had a long and storied past, making it a fascinating place to visit today. Check out the top sights in Berlin!
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Your #Berlin #vacation should include a #tour of the incredible architecture of the city owed to its lengthy history. From the Charlottenburg Palace to the Bahn Tower, you’ll find plenty to look at in the city’s downtown area. Stop by Prater Garten for a German brew—built in 1837, it’s one of few buildings that has survived both World Wars.
#Visit Museum Island, located in the Spree River. It features five museums where you can explore the art of numerous cultures, or wander through a replica of the Ishtar Gate.
If you’re looking for a thriving nightlife, Berlin is the place to go. When the sun sets on the city, the party really begins, and you can find any number of clubs where you can dance until long after the sun comes up.
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Turkey’s Ephesus added to UNESCO World Heritage list
The ancient city of Ephesus in western Turkey has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List following a vote in Bonn on July 5.
The move came just a day after Diyarbakir’s wall and its nearby Hevsel Gardens were added to the list as well.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Permanent Representative of Turkey to UNESCO Hüseyin Avni Botsalı – who headed the Turkish delegation at the session – described the unanimous approval of Ephesus as a great success.
“In fact, we have a great responsibility on our shoulders in terms of cooperation of the international community in this field. We will make significant efforts for the protection of civilizational values and cultural properties,” he added.
Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ömer Çelik celebrated the development in a series of Twitter posts.
“We have just received the second good news from Germany. Ephesus is now officially on the world heritage [list],” he said.
The minister said Ephesus had always been a key port city, as well as a cultural and commercial center, throughout history.
“A principal city of science, culture and art of its era, Ephesus had been a residential area starting from the pre-historic era and through the Hellenistic, Roman, Eastern Roman periods and also under the Ottoman Empire for about nine millennia without interruption,” he said.
Çelik also said Ephesus, which draws 2 million visitors a year, was a place that the whole world agreed was a site of global cultural heritage.
Describing Ephesus, UNESCO said: “The Temple of Artemis, which was considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is situated on the edge of this small town. The city which was situated at the beginning of the Persian Royal Road has survived sufficiently enough to enable us to understand the ancient way of life in Ephesus. It is one of the cities which played an impressive role in the beginnings of Christianity and during the period of its proliferation (St. John Church and the shrine of the Virgin Mary). It contains one of the most spectacular examples of religious architecture of the Seljuk Period.”
Turkey first entered the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1985 with Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia and the Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği – both in central Turkey – and the historic areas of Istanbul.
The Hittite capital Hattuşa was added to the list in 1986, followed by Mount Nemrut in Adıyaman 1987, and Hierapolis-Pamukkale in Denizli and the ancient city of Xanthos-Letoon between Muğla and Fethiye in 1988.
In 1994, the city of Safranbolu was approved as a world heritage while the archaeological site of Troy was added to the list in 1998. In recent year, Edirne’s Selimiye Mosque and its social complex was added in 2011, as was Konya’s Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in 2012.
The latest entries in 2014 were Bursa’s Cumalikızık village which witnessed the birth of the Ottoman Empire and İzmir’s ancient city of Pergamon and its multi-layered cultural landscape.
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The beautiful town of Goslar enchants with its narrow streets, shale clad timber frame houses and nostalgic flair. Amidst this dreamy backdrop of the historic old town is from November 26 to December 30, 2014 the Goslar Christmas Market and Christmas Forest in the market place and the adjacent Schuhhof place and attracts visitors again and again with its unique contemplative atmosphere.
Every year Goslar shines in the cold season festive atmosphere: It smells of cinnamon, baked apple, roasted almonds - Christmas is in the air! Romantic framed by the backdrop of the marketplace invite 80 rustic, lovingly decorated wooden huts to stroll and dine. Let us spoil you, listen to classic Christmas sounds, enjoy sweet Christmas treats, hearty sausages and warm up with a hot mulled wine on.
Lover of arts and crafts here original Christmas gifts, unique decorations for the Christmas tree and a festive home. The magical Christmas forest on the Schuhhof in the historic center, it can be in front of fascinating medieval backdrop cozy punch drink, meet friends, chat and relax enjoy the evening.
Surrounded by 50 great Christmas-romantic scented pine trees lit on the forest floor, your visit to a contemplative event in a winter setting. NYC pure pleasure! You will be enchanted by Christmas Goslar in all its diversity! Many Goslar Attractions turn at Christmas time in sparkling and magical places. About the stairway to heaven to get to the tower of the central market Church. Take high above the roofs of a little break, disconnect from the pre-Christmas stress and enjoy the wintry view.
The Palatinate town of Goslar was well established already by Henry I, the first mention is for Otto II. is for the year 979. Goslar was the Lieblingspflaz Henry III. It was probably the wealth of silver and copper, which attracted the Emperor again and again to Goslar. Around the year 1252 Empire ends in Goslar. In the Middle and Late Middle Ages, a bourgeoisie developed in the city that are generated from trading, mining, metallurgical and forestry income for prosperity. In the 14th century already Goslar one of the very few cities over a water pipe system made of wood. The cathedral was sold at the beginning of the 19th century and demolished. Also from the imperial palace was left not much, only in the context of historicism, the palace was restored. From the Duomo only Domvorhalle remained. Today, Goslar presented as quaint half-timbered town and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Christmas Market bills itself as North Germany's most beautiful. He finds the marketplace place before the historic town hall, but extends over the streets and squares. The highlight is the Christmas forest, here you can mulled wine under its 40-foot high spruce enjoy, illuminated by thousands of lights. An extensive program of concerts rounds off the holiday season. In the old hospital located craftsmen present under the motto Advent in the Great Holy Cross. The former ore mine and World Heritage Site Rammelsberg also offers Advent actions, such as the Festival of Lights in Roeder Gallery. Many sights to be discovered as the carillon at the guild house at the market, which tells the history of mining or the heavenly ladder that leads to the Market Church.
For the preparation of mulled red or white wine with different spices (usually cinnamon, cloves, lemon peel, star anise heated) and sweetened to taste. In the preparation of mulled wine should never be heated above 80 ° C because the alcohol contained in mulled wine from 78 ° C evaporates, change the spices their flavor adversely and sugar degradation product hydroxymethylfurfural formed, which is suspected to be carcinogenic. [3 ] The minimum alcoholic strength of mulled wine available at retail by law to 7 % vol. set.
Goslar Forest includes biological communities whose community is characterized by species typical of Goslar forest ecological or location factors are adapted, in particular to the reduced lighting power, the Goslar forest interior climate and Goslar forest soils. According to this definition Goslar forest is critically dependent on a minimum size that is necessary to ensure the minimum area of the species that can be significantly larger than in accordance with the legal definitions.
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The biblical Magi ( or ; singular: magus), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, in the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They are regular figures in traditional accounts of the nativity celebrations of Christmas and are an important part of Christian tradition.
Matthew is the only of the four canonical gospels to mention the Magi. Matthew reports that they came from the east to worship the king of the Jews. The gospel never mentions the number of Magi, but most western Christian denominations have traditionally assumed them to have been three in number, based on the statement that they brought three gifts. In Eastern Christianity, especially the Syriac churches, the Magi often number twelve. Their identification as kings in later Christian writings is probably linked to Psalm 72:11, May all kings fall down before him.