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Leipzig Alte Handelsbörse – Leipzig’s Old Stock Exchange

January 12, 2011 By Helen Page

Leipzig Alte Handelsbörse Was The Old Trading Exchange for the City's Merchants: Just behind the Leipzig Altes Rathaus (Old City Hall) at Naschmarkt 4 is one of my favourite Leipzig buildings, the Leipzig Alte Handelsbörse or Old Stock Exchange. By comparison to other Leipzig buildings, the … [Read more...]

Leipzig Altes Rathaus – Leipzig’s Old City Hall

January 10, 2011 By Helen Page

Leipzig Altes Rathaus Was Used for Celebrations by Saxon Princes And Weddings: Leipzig's grand Altes Rathaus (Old City Hall), is one of the most important Renaissance buildings remaining in Germany. The city had a town hall from as early as the middle of the 14th century when the citizens of … [Read more...]

Auerbachs Keller Leipzig – Immortalized in Faust I

January 10, 2011 By Helen Page

Auerbachs Keller Leipzig - Goethe's Favourite Wine Bar During His Student Days: Auerbachs Keller (Auerbachs Cellar) owes much of its fame to Goethe who immortalized the wine tavern in Faust I - In part V, Mephistopheles, the demon, takes Faust to the tavern in an attempt to ruin him, but … [Read more...]

Discovering Leipzig On A Leipzig Music Trail

January 9, 2011 By Helen Page

DISCOVER THIS CITY OF MUSIC BY WALKING THE LEIPZIG MUSIC TRAIL: Leipzig is a city which is associated with many famous composers of the 18th to the 20th century. Johann Sebastian Bach worked in Leipzig from 1723 to 1750, Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig in 1813 and Leipzig was the most … [Read more...]

Oper Leipzig and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester

January 9, 2011 By Helen Page

Oper Leipzig and Leipzig Gewandhausorchester Are Amongst the Oldest In the World: Leipzig can trace its opera history back to 1693 when the first Oper Leipzig was established, making it the third oldest opera house after La Fenice in Venice and the Hamburg State Opera. With the opening of … [Read more...]

Mendelssohn-Haus – A Museum Dedicated to Mendelssohn

January 8, 2011 By Helen Page

Mendelssohn-Haus - A Museum Dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: At Goldschmidtstraße 12 in Leipzig is Mendelssohn-Haus, the only remaining preserved private residence of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The Mendelssohn family moved into this apartment at the beginning of 1845 and it … [Read more...]

The Pantheon – A Roman Temple To All The Gods

January 6, 2011 By Helen Page

The Pantheon Still Has The World's Largest Non-reinforced Concrete Dome: Few ancient buildings have survived the ravages of time so well as the Pantheon in Rome. Up to this day, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest non-reinforced concrete dome. And nearly two thousand years after … [Read more...]

Piazza Navona – The Most Beautiful Baroque Rome Piazza

January 6, 2011 By Helen Page

Piazza Navona Is One of Rome's Most Beautiful Baroque Piazzas: Although many visitors come to Rome to enjoy its many churches, museums, restaurants, theatres and other indoor attractions, Rome is very much an outdoor city. Many of its piazzi are full of local life and colour and in these … [Read more...]

The Roman Forum or Forum Romanum

January 5, 2011 By Helen Page

Roman Forum Is One of the Foremost Archaeological Sites In the World: Located in a valley between Palatine Hill and Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum or Forum Romanum in Latin (Foro Romano in Italian) is one of the foremost archaeological sites in the world. Long before the first millennium the … [Read more...]

The Colosseum – A Rome Icon of Colossal Proportion