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The 100 most popular tourist attractions in Germany

August 29, 2022941 Views

GNTB presents results of the yearly TOP 100 ranking Between December 2021 and June 2022, around 15,000 international visitors from 30 countries chose their favorite tourist destinations in Germany. The current TOP 100 ranking is now online at www.germany.travel/top100 Europark Rust Last year's winner, Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg, received the most votes. EuropaPark Rust was also able to defend its second place. Rothenburg ob der Tauber took third place for the first time. Neuschwanstein Castle, Phantasialand Brühl, our capital Berlin, the Black Forest National Park, the Rothenburg ob der Tauber Criminal Museum, Dresden, and the Moselle Valley followed. Petra Hedorfer, CEO of the Board of Directors of the GNTB: "For ten years in a row, the TOP 100 ranking presents Germany's tou...

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Tourists flock back to France over summer after pandemic

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August 29, 2022285 Views

Despite cost-of-living fears, heatwaves and wildfires, France's tourism industry rebounded in a big way this summeras local and foreign holidaymakers poured in after a two-year slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Tourism Minister Olivia Gregoire told a news conference that preliminary data showed the summer of 2022 had been "exceptional", with 35 million French people going on holidays, or seven out of 10 compared with about 60% last year. FILE PHOTO: Tourists walk in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, France, July 3, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier In 2019 France was the most visited country in the world, attracting nearly 90 million foreign tourists. "We want to remain the number one destination in the world," Gregoire said. Credit card spending during the summer rose 10...

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Notting Hill Carnival returns to London streets after hiatus

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August 28, 2022649 Views

The annual Notting Hill Carnival has returned to the streets of London for the first time since 2019, with more than 1 million people expected to take in the music, spectacular parades, dancing and food offerings at Europe’s largest street party on Sunday and Monday. The carnival, which celebrates Caribbean culture at the end of August every year, had to take place online for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Performers attend the Family Day at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Sunday Aug. 28, 2022. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) Performers dance during the Family Day at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Sunday Aug. 28, 2022. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) The carnival traces its history back to 1958, when Trinidadian human rights activist Claudia Jones began organizi...

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Underground theatre: Ukraine actors return to stage in bomb shelter

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August 28, 2022470 Views

Actors in a heavily bombarded city in southern Ukraine have returned to the stage, putting on their first performance since Russia's invasion in an underground shelter converted into a tiny theatre. A few dozen theatre-goers descended steep concrete steps into the subterranean venue on Thursday for the opening night of a show put on by the Mykolaiv Art Drama Theatre. Their usual venue, an ornate 450-seater hall, has been closed due to the six-month war that has seen Mykolaiv, a strategic southern port, repeatedly targeted by Russia forces. An actor prepares before performing at an underground shelter turned to an underground temporary stage as part of an opening night for the first performance since the start of the war, amid Russia's invasion, at Mykolaiv Art Drama Theatre in Mykol...

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Italy’s drought exposes ancient imperial bridge over Tiber

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August 26, 2022759 Views

Italy’s worst drought in 70 years has exposed the piers of an ancient bridge over the Tiber River once used by Roman emperors but which fell into disrepair by the third century. Two piers of Nero’s Bridge have been visible much of the summer near the Vittorio Emanuele bridge that traverses the river near the Vatican, a pile of moss-covered rocks where seagulls now sun themselves. The ruins of the ancient Roman Neronian bridge, emerge from the river bed of the Tiber river, in Rome, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The bridge was built in the first century for Emperor Nero to reach his gardens near the Janiculum Hill near what is present-day St. Peter’s Square, said historian Anthony Majanlahti. The bridge was already falling apart by the third century, traffic was...

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Current warming is recorded as the strongest of the last 7,000 years

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August 26, 20221054 Views

Observation emerges from the analysis of annual growth rings from Yamal’s subfossil trees The north of Western Siberia is recording the warmest summers of the last 7,000 years. While for several millennia the temperature of the region was following a general cooling, in the 19th century there has been an abrupt change with rapidly rising temperature that has reached its highest value in the recent decades. These findings were published in Nature Communications. Over 40 years, dendrochronologists have collected more than 5,000 samples of subfossil trees in Yamal. Photo credit: Vladimir Kukarskih Thanks to multiple field expeditions aimed at collecting subfossil wood performed over the last 40 years, dendrochronologists of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of t...

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Hot, dry summer forces early start to Champagne harvest in France

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August 25, 2022983 Views

Champagne grape pickers have had to start the harvest earlier this year, as climate change forces the makers of the French sparkling wine to rethink how they make the coveted bubbly. High temperatures and the worst drought on record have caused massive wildfires and led to restrictions on water usage across France. But they also boosted grape maturity. Champagne grape pickers work at the Clos des Goisses vineyard owned by Champagne Philipponnat during the traditional Champagne harvest in Mareuil-sur-Ay, France, August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol An August harvest, rather than in early September last year, used to be a once in a lifetime experience in Champagne in the past, said Charles Philipponnat, president of the family-owned Philipponnat Champagne winery that produces ...

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Germany gives ownership of looted Benin Bronzes back to Nigeria

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August 25, 20221215 Views

Germany signed an agreement on Thursday to transfer ownership to Nigeria of the Benin Bronzes, among Africa's most culturally significant artefacts which were looted in the 19th century. British soldiers took hundreds of bronzes - intricate sculptures and plaques dating back to the 13th century onwards - when they invaded the Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now southwestern Nigeria, in 1897. The artefacts ended up in museums around Europe and the United States. African countries have for years fought to recover them. FILE PHOTO: Benin bronzes objects are displayed at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Wednesday June 29, 2022 . (Bernd Weissbrod/dpa via AP) Germany returned the first of the sculptures to Nigeria in July. On Thursday, the Foundation of Prussian Cult...

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World’s first fleet of hydrogen passenger trains begins service in Germany

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August 24, 2022956 Views

German officials launched what they say is the world’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains Wednesday, replacing 15 diesel trains that previously operated on nonelectrified tracks in the state of Lower Saxony. The 14 trains use hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity that powers the engines. The German government has backed expanding the use of hydrogen as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. A hydrogen-powered regional train stands at Bremervoerde station, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. In the fight against climate change, 14 hydrogen trains are to replace the current diesel trains. In Bremervoerde, a trial operation with two prototypes ran successfully between fall 2018 and February 2020. (Sina Schuldt/dpa via AP) State governor Stephan Weil said the 93-mill...

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Europe facing its worst drought in 500 years – study

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August 24, 2022348 Views

Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production and the yields of certain crops, a European Union agency said on Tuesday. The August report of the European Drought Observatory (EDO), overseen by the European Commission, said 47% of Europe is under warning conditions, with clear deficit of soil moisture, and 17% in a state of alert, in which vegetation is affected. A woman takes pictures in the peninsula of Sirmione, on Garda lake, Italy, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) "The severe drought affecting many regions of Europe since the beginning of the year has been further expanding and worsening as of early August," the report said, adding tha...