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SCHENGEN – Schengen Agreement
The Schengen Agreement is a treaty signed on 14 June 1985 near the town of Schengen in Luxembourg, between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community. It was supplemented by the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreem [...]

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SCHERPENHEUVEL – Basiliek
For more than six centuries now the people of Scherpenheuvel have been venerating a miraculous statue of Mary. In 1605 the archduke and duchess Albrecht and Isabella gave this village the privileges of a city and instructed that a monumental c [...]

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SCHWANGAU – Colomanskirche
This church is dedicated to St Coloman of Stockerau, and is located in the village of Schwangau in southern Bavaria near the Austrian border, 1.5 km from the famous Neuschwanstein Castle of Ludwig II of Bavaria. St Coloman was an 11th-c. Irish [...]

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SCHWANGAU – Marienbrücke
The Marienbrücke (Mary’s Bridge) is a bridge over the Pöllat Gorge directly behind Neuschwanstein Castle. The bridge was named after Queen Marie. With the construction of the bridge by King Maximilian II over the Pöllat Gorge, he named it afte [...]

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SEEGEBIT MANSEFELDER LAND – Fundort Geiseltal – Urpferd
A recently rediscovered sample of browncoal in the Geiseltalmuseum of the Martin-Luther-University in Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, Central Germany, which is labelled as gut content of an early horse has been studied together with the accompa [...]

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SEEVETAL – Nordseeheilbad St. Peter Ording
St. Peter-Ording is situated on the North Sea coast, on the western tip of the Eiderstedt peninsula, approx. 45 km southwest of Husum. Part of the municipality lies in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park. Its characteristics includ [...]

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SENFTENBERG – Lake Senftenberger See Family Park – Froggi
With its own gently sloping shallow sandy bathing area surrounded by a pine forest, the family park is ideal for a relaxing family holiday in the great outdoors. Great activities and experience for children. The camping site and family park at [...]

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SENFTENBERG – Landmarke Lausitzer Seenland
In the largest artificial lake landscape in Europe, the landmark Lusatian Lakeland (Lausitzer Seenland) sets an unmissable sign: The 30-metre-high observation tower is a symbol of landscape change and a walk-in sculpture all in one. Built as p [...]

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SENFTENBERG – Sedlitzer See … im Lausitzer Seenland
The Lusatian Lakeland (Lausitzer Seenland) is the largest artificial lake landscape in Europe, created in the remediated zone of former lignite mines. Sedlitz Lake, Sedlitzer See, is one of the lakes located here. In just twenty years, more th [...]

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SENFTENBERG – Senftenberg See … im Lausitzer Seenland
Lake Senftenberg is an artificial lake in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Brandenburg, Germany. It is located in the Lusatian Lake District, a chain of artificial lakes. The lake is located on the border of Lower and Upper Lusatia between the [...]

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SENFTENBERG – Senftenberg See Stadthafen
The lake was created by the flooding of the former opencast lignite mine of Niemtsch by the Black Elster from 15 November 1967 to November 1972. From December 2010 to April 2013, a town harbour was built in Senftenberg. It was opened on 23 Apr [...]

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SEPTON – DURBUY – Radhadesh – Château de Petite Somme
In the heart of the Belgian Ardennes, near Durbuy, lies the fairytale castle of Petite Somme. The castle has a long history which now houses the spiritual community, Radhadesh Ardennes. The new residents have  thoroughly restored  the castle a [...]

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SONTHOFEN – Generaloberst Beck Kaserne
The Ordensburg Sonthofen is one of the NS-Ordensburgen built during the Third Reich in Sonthofen (Oberallgäu). Currently it belongs to the Bundeswehr and is named Generaloberst-Beck-Kaserne. The complex was built in 1934 as NS-Ordensburg Sonth [...]

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SPEYER – Unknown Marilyn Monroe – Historisches Museum der Pfalz
Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. The special exhibition idol and the myth of an era - the actress, singer and style icon Marilyn Monroe. The exhibition draws attention to a previously unenlightened secluded [...]

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SPEYER – Ceasar and Cleopatra – Historisches Museum der Pfalz
In the grand halls of the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, visitors are invited to step back over two thousand years. The exhibition “Caesar & Cleopatra” tells the dramatic story of two of the most fascinating figures of the [...]

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SPEYER – Detective, Agenten & Spione – Historisches Museum der Pfalz
From autumn 2015, the Historical Museum of the Palatinate will be showing the great hands-on exhibition 'Detectives, Agents & Spies'. What exactly makes a good investigator? In an adventurous course all the young sleuths undergo a 'Detecti [...]

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SPEYER – Expedition Erde – Historisches Museum der Pfalz
The co-exhibition "Expedition Earth" in Speyer is originally a project of the Wiener Kindermuseums Zoom.The young Museum Speyer takes you to interactive stations on topics such as ground insectst, mammals and the "Wood Wide Web", the communica [...]

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SPEYER – Maya – Historisches Museum der Pfalz
From October 2016 till April 2017, the Historical Museum of the Palatinate ( Historisches Museum der Pfalz) showed the great exhibition "The Maya - Rulers of the Rainforest". This major international archaeological exhibition is an exploration [...]

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SPEYER – Medicus – Historisches Museum der Pfalz
It is the world of bathers and quacks, in which the young Rob Cole, the hero of the successful novel "The Medicus", grows up. His desire to heal sick people and his desire for knowledge leads him from Europe to the Orient, where he meets the m [...]

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SPEYER – Richard the Lionheart – Historisches Museum der Pfalz
A major exhibition devoted to Richard the Lionheart is opened in Speyer, to which the British Library is pleased to have loaned three of our magnificent medieval manuscripts. The books in question can be viewed in Richard Löwenherz: König-Ritt [...]

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ST. GOAR – Schloss Rheinfels
Rheinfels Castle is a castle ruin located above the left (west) bank of the Rhine in Sankt Goar, Germany. It was started in 1245 by Count Diether V of Katzenelnbogen. After expansions, it was the largest fortress in the Middle Rhein Valley. It [...]