Above the half timbered town of Schmalkalden, on the southwestern slopes of the Thuringian Forest, stands one of the best preserved Renaissance palaces in Germany. Wilhelmsburg Palace was built in

On the western edge of Kassel, at the foot of a vast hillside park crowned by a colossal statue of Hercules, stands one of the most impressive classical palaces in

In the historic town of Wolfenbuttel, near Brunswick in Lower Saxony, stands one of the largest palaces in northern Germany. Wolfenbuttel Palace was the residence of the dukes of Brunswick

On the shore of a quiet lake east of Dessau, surrounded by one of the most beautiful landscape gardens in Europe, stands a palace that changed German architecture. Worlitz Palace,