Augsburg

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  Fuggerei

  Known as “the town within a town,” the Fuggerei was founded in 1516 by Jakob Fugger the Rich and his brothers as the world’s first social settlement for impoverished citizens. The settlement comprises 67 two-story structures housing 147 apartments...

   

Potsdam

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  Cecilienhof

  Cecilienhof, built in the New Garden from 1914-1917, was the last royal contribution to Potsdam’s cultural landscape. The 180-room English landhouse-style palace was the setting for the 1945 Potsdam Conference.

   
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  Dutch Quarter

  The Baroque Dutch Quarter, a group of red-brick, gabled houses, was built from 1735-1742 to attract much-needed craftsmen from Holland. The Dutch were recognized as experts in building on swamps, and that’s what much of Potsdam was at the time.

   

Regensburg

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  The Excavations at Neupfarrplatz Square

  In the course of extensive excavations in the Regensburg Old Town, researchers unearthed the remains of cellars belonging to houses and buildings of the Jewish quarter, as well as sections of the Roman legionary fortress Castra Regina. Visitors are...

   
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  Palace of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis

  In the middle of the 18th century, the princes of Thurn and Taxis created a magnificent castle here built around a former 8th-century monastery.

   
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  Historisches Museum der Stadt Regensburg (Municipal or Historical Museum)

  The museum features Prehistory and Early History departments from the Old Stone Age to the early Middle Ages, with a strong focus on Roman times.