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Kaffee and Kuchen with Goethe and Schiller(Comments Off)

February 25, 2009

Weimar and Goethe are to the German speaking world what Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon are to the English speaking world. (more…)

This city was called home by the paramount German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Friedrich von Schiller, composers Franz Liszt and Johann Sebastian Bach, the painter Lucas Cranach the elder, the philosopher Johann Gottfried [...]

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Hotels in Weimar

For anyone interested in the German classics, this charming town is a must-see.  Stay at the Elephant Hotel, now a member of the Sheraton Luxury Hotel Collection right on the central market square, or the elegant Russischer Hof on the Goetheplatz.  In addition, there are many smaller historic buildings that have been converted into hotels [...]