Intellectual Ferment of a Different Kind
~Introducing Nürnberg~ An Imperial Free City from the beginning of the thirteenth century until it became part of Bavaria during the Napoleonic era, Nürnberg answered only to the emperor. It was a frequent site of the Imperial Diets, and distinguished itself as a …
Introducing Garmisch-Partenkirchen Down south in Bavaria the ice-blue lakes amid contoured hills collide with the rugged and craggy Karwendel and Wetterstein massifs, jagged peaks that are among Germany’s highest. The result: grand landscapes with verdant foothills and geranium-bedecked chalets against a backdrop of limestone …
The weather didn’t look very promising when I woke up that September morning on my first trip to Munich since the pandemic. I had gone to Augsburg the day before in search of a few places I hadn’t yet had a chance to visit—and …