On a sunny slope above the Elbe valley, a few kilometres upstream from Dresden, lies one of the most beautiful baroque gardens in Germany. Grosssedlitz was begun in the 1710s

In the heart of Mecklenburg, in a small town of red brick churches and cobbled streets, stands one of the finest Renaissance palaces in northern Germany. Gustrow Palace was built

High on a ridge above the little town of Rudolstadt in Thuringia, a long, pale palace looks out over the valley of the Saale. Heidecksburg was for centuries the seat

There is a particular moment that catches almost everyone who arrives in Heidelberg. You come around a bend, or you step onto the Old Bridge, and there it is above

On the northwestern edge of Hanover lies one of the most magnificent baroque gardens in Europe, and at its head stands a palace reborn. Herrenhausen Palace was the summer residence

In the quiet hills of the Mecklenburg Lake District stands a simple, elegant country palace that holds one of the most touching stories in German history. Hohenzieritz was the summer

Rising from a solitary conical mountain in the gentle hills of southern Germany, Hohenzollern Castle is one of the most dramatic and romantic sights in all of Europe. On clear

Few palaces have shaped a city as completely as Karlsruhe Palace. When Margrave Karl Wilhelm of Baden Durlach founded Karlsruhe in 1715, he placed his palace tower at the centre

High above the deep valley of the Zschopau river, a short drive from Chemnitz in Saxony, a baroque palace looks out over one of the most enchanting gardens in eastern

Not the Swabian Versailles but a brick Renaissance house on the Greifswald Bodden, built by a Pomeranian duke and finished for his widow. Ludwigsburg near Greifswald is a survivor of a vanished dynasty.