On our European holiday, we focused on three exceptional destinations designated in the renowned “Best of the Alps” collection: Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, the Kitzbuhel Alps in Austria and Cortina in the Italian Alps. The local villages and towns in the collection are slightly off the beaten path, but we quickly learned that they…

There is a magical land in the very south of Bavaria: its vaults are the mountains, its animals are the crown jewels. There are sparkling palaces from ice and snow, like a fairytale, made from nature’s forces. Magnificent castles built with human hands. The mountains and the rough climate are challenges for nature and the…

What is better than one palace? Three, of course. North of Munich, Germany, one can visit the sumptuous Schleissheim Palace complex, a former summer residence of the Wittelsbach dynasty. The estate hosts three individual royal residences: the Old Palace, the New Palace, and the Lustheim Palace. As one of Bavaria’s largest and most impressive palace…

On our quest to explore the best of the Alps we visited Garmisch-Partenkirchen, an appealing resort town nestled in the Bavarian Alps. Interestingly, this town is comprised of two separate side-by-side villages that united in 1935 to host the Winter Olympics. World-renowned for its alpine hiking, Garmisch-Partenkirchen is home to Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze….

Merry Christmas with SPLENDOR MUSICAE from the Holy Cross Church in Polling/Bavaria * WERKE / COMPOSITIONS: * Conrad F. X. Gruber (1787-1863) 00:07 – Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) 03:23 – Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) 05:41 – Antidotum in tono hypodorio Anton Reidinger (1839-1912) 07:13 – Es wird scho…

BERLIN—Four people were killed and 30 injured when a busy regional train derailed near a popular ski resort and hiking destination in southern Germany on Friday, police said. Fifteen of the injured were receiving hospital treatment, a police spokesperson said, adding that 60 people had been on board at the time of the crash, which…

Recently, top German politicians held an online conference to discuss the global influence of the Chinese communist regime’s Confucius Institutes (CI), calling to stop funding them with German taxpayers’ money. According to German media Donaukurier, the Ingolstadt Action Alliance for Uyghur Human Rights and the World Uyghur Congress co-organized the online conference prior to Ingolstadt…