The painstaking removal of multiple layers of paint revealed policemen with smileys as faces. Trademark Banksy, the guerilla street artist, ...

What do Star Wars, Hanukkah and Christmas have in common? A place before Berlin’s iconic Brandenburger Tor. The Brandenburger Tor ...

To Germans, 'oriental' seems to have a very specific meaning. Whilst visiting one of my first parks, the Gardens of the World, a signpost for the Orientalische Garten caught my eye. ...

This beauty of a Russian Orthodox church is a study in the neo-Byzantine style. The tiny church’s ancient caretaker appeared ...

Arbours, snaking pathways and clever lines of sight were employed by Prussian 'garden artist' Lenné to ingeniously link diverse and seemingly unconnected landscapes. ...

“It’s good to be the king”, I thought, as I stood before the pyramid in Potsdam’s Neue Garten (New Garden). ...

Was it optimism or irony that made them name the bridge the Brücke der Einheit (Bridge of Unity)? ...

Each year in early December, Yoggi's kitchen would be filled for days with the smell of baking. His Yuletide gift to family and friends outside Berlin were invariably boxes of Weihnachtsplätzchen (Christmas cookies). ...

Blame the Buddy Bears for popularising the notion that Berlin derives its name from ‘Bär’, German for ‘bear’. These colourful ...

Was it the princess in the lake that drew me? The Müggelberge's mysterious lake and moors transfixed me when I explored the area. ...

Of all the German words that I encountered when I first moved to Germany, it was ‘pflegeleicht’ that struck me. ...

The venue was so heavily 19th century European it seemed the most unlikely place to hold a celebration of the ...