Anyone traveling through Saxony-Anhalt will encounter culture at every turn: in Romanesque cathedrals and baroque palace gardens, between industrial architecture and contemporary art.
The Nebra Sky Disk shows the oldest view of the heavens. The Bauhaus in Dessau rethinks design. And six UNESCO World Heritage Sites combine world fame with everyday experience.
The state's cultural sites bring history and the present together - and bring ideas, people and times to life.
Six places tell 3600 years of history - from the Sky Disc and Luther's theses to Bauhaus modernism. A region with an unusually high density of World Heritage sites - close together, yet very different.
Garden dreams between Baroque and Bauhaus: palace parks, rose gardens and riverside forests combine beauty with attitude - and invite you to slow down, linger and take a closer look.
Castles, princely residences, Romanesque architecture: in Saxony-Anhalt you can experience history first-hand. Many sites are accessible, some restored, others almost unchanged. You can see how stone carries stories - of power, everyday life and change. Guided tours, exhibitions and paths through the grounds help to put the past into context.
From Handel to hip-hop, from Feininger to festivals: Saxony-Anhalt is alive with sound and art - in towns and villages, on stages, in churches and in people's heads.
More than 200 museums provide an insight into world heritage, ideas and everyday life. Between the Sky Disc, Bauhaus and baby carriages, they tell of life - then and now.
Between shaft and rails, chemistry and camera: Industrial culture shows work as heritage - with machines, landscapes and places in transition.
Saxony-Anhalt tells of the early relationship between man and the cosmos - with the Nebra Sky Disk, the Goseck Solar Observatory, the Pömmelte ring sanctuary and the dolmen goddess of Langeneichstädt. An archaeological tourist route to cultures that interpreted the heavens - and asked questions that are still unanswered today.