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SHOPPING IN BERLIN The seven-story KaDeWe department store on Wittenbergpl. at Tauentzienstr. 21-24, is the largest department store on the continent. The name is an abbreviation of Kaufhaus des …
TRAVEL TO GRAZ AUSTRIA Find an inexpensive meal on Hauptplatz, where concession stands sell sand wiches, Wurst (‚1.50-3), and other fast food. Cheap student hangouts line Zinzen- dorfgasse near …
BARS AND CLUBS IN BERLIN MITTE IS TresorGlobus, Leipziger Str. 126a. U2 or night bus N5, N29, or N52 to Potsdamer PI. One of the best techno venues in …
Frankfurt Map Tourist Attractions SIGHTS Much of Frankfurt’s historic splendor lives on only in memories and in reconstructed monuments, since Allied bombing left everything but the cathedral completely destroyed. …
Munich Travel Destinations SIGHTS MARIENPLATZ. The Mariensaule, an ornate 17th-century monument to the Virgin Mary, was built to commemorate the city’s survival of the Thirty Years’ War. At the …
Lyon Vacations EAST OF THE RHONE AND MODERN LYON Lyon’s newest train station and monstrous space-age mall form the core of the ultra-modern Part-Dieu district. Locals call the commercial …
NORTHERN ENGLAND Trains leave from Neville St. for Edinburgh (I’ahr. approx. every hr. £.36) and London King’s Cross (3V4hr. every hr. £83). National Express buses ( (08705) 808 080) …
MUSIC AUSTRIA The first msgor musician of Viennese classicism was Josef Haydn, whose oratorio The Creation (1798) is a choral standard, but the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart represents …