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Dive into the ice-cold, schnapps-infused, and surprisingly profound world of Oldenburg's Winter Obsession. This tour is not an ordinary food tour, but an insight into the cabbage ride – a regional ritual in which a humble winter vegetable shapes social hierarchies, drives political lobbying, and turns forests into playgrounds. Discover how a survival food from the 19th century became the beating heart of the identity of an entire city. - 5.8 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 149 min. - Ideal for fans of culinary arts, identity, society, and everyday life Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Welcome to Osnabrück, the "City of Peace". Around 780, Charlemagne, king of the Franks, erected a stone church on the banks of the Hase River, the nucleus of today's Osnabrück. It was the place where the "Peace of Westphalia'', a series of peace treaties were signed, effectively ending the Thirty Years War. Peace was proclaimed in October 1648 from the town hall and would have a significant impact on European history. The city is located in the middle of a UNESCO Geo Park, a 1.220 square kilometers in total area that is a nature reserve, offering a golden opportunity to go cycling or hiking in the country. See the pedestrian zone flanked by gorgeous 15th century half-timbered and sandstone houses, topped off with a war memorial to the soldiers who fought at Waterloo. The city palace was also the birthplace of King George I. of England. Osnabrück is also known amongst literature and art lovers through the works of some of its own sons, Erich Maria Remarque and Felix Nussbaum.

Start your visit to Göttingen with this 2-hour walk led by a Local. You’ll discover its highlights, hidden gems, and get practical tips. This is the best introduction to Göttingen. Get to see places like Gänselieselbrunnen and Altes Rathaus Göttingen, along with hidden corners of Göttingen only known to locals that reveal the city’s everyday charm. You'll also receive local insights on where to eat, drink, and how to get around, helping you explore with confidence and make the most of your time. • Get the best intro to Göttingen through its highlights and hidden gems • Learn about local products and connect with Göttingen's traditions • Get local tips on where to eat, drink, and how to move around the city • Make the most of your time with this 2-hour walking experience • Enjoy the intimacy of a small group, up to 8 travellers

Start your visit to Hannover with this 2-hour walk led by a Local. You’ll discover its highlights, hidden gems, and get practical tips. This is the best introduction to Hannover. Get to see places like the New Town Hall and Marktkirche, along with hidden corners of Hannover only known to locals that reveal the city’s everyday charm. You'll also receive local insights on where to eat, drink, and how to get around, helping you explore with confidence and make the most of your time. • Get the best intro to Hannover through its highlights and hidden gems • Learn about local products and connect with Hannover's traditions • Get local tips on where to eat, drink, and how to move around the city • Make the most of your time with this 2-hour walking experience • Enjoy the intimacy of a small group, up to 8 travellers

Experience the city center of Hanover in the mysterious glow of the evening hours and discover the most beautiful sights of Hanover in a completely new way. Between illuminated streets, historic buildings and a special city flair, an exciting escape game full of gripping story, tricky puzzles and special atmosphere awaits you. Spend an unforgettable time with your loved ones between adventure and nighttime flair.

Discover how a medieval symbol of feudal power became the beating heart of a working-class city. This captivating tour takes you far beyond the pitch and illuminates the deep, emotional connection between Braunschweig and its legendary football club Eintracht. From secret meetings in an apartment in 1895 to the ashes of the Second World War and to a revolutionary liqueur sponsorship that changed the global sports world forever – you take exactly the path that fans take on game days. Experience the triumphs, scandals, and 'True Love' that shape Löwenstadt. 5.8 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 150 min. Ideal for everyone interested in society & everyday life and history and memory Excitingly tells in a podcast style from experts and locals Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Before there were sold-out arenas and thirteen million sold records, there were three guys, a toy keyboard, and a radical idea. This tour follows the incredible journey of the band Trio – the architects of one of the most iconic sounds of the New German Wave. You go from the days as a teacher training student at a politically charged university in the 70s through the smoky pub scene of Oldenburg to the station that marked your escape into rural isolation. Discover how the rejection of musical excesses and the search for minimalism created a worldwide pop phenomenon – a story about art, isolation, and the price of commercial triumph. 4.0 km self-guided tour with 4 stations over 105 min. Ideal for everyone interested in pop culture media landscapes and pop culture media Excitingly tells in a podcast style from experts and locals Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Salzgitter-Lebenstedt did not grow organically over centuries, but was designed on paper in the 1930s as the "city of the future" for the Reichswerke Hermann Göring. Accompany architecture expert Tom and local Emma on a profound journey through a city built on a fascist grid. Discover the reality of forced labor behind the propaganda, the effect of functionalist zoning separation, and the later struggle of the residents to give the authoritarian building plan life and a soul of their own. - 6.5 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 160 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in urbanism, infrastructure, and innovation Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Discover the hidden architectural revolution of Wolfsburg. Originally conceived as a rigid, industrial machine for the Nazi's car production, the city was radically redesigned after the Second World War by visionary architects such as Alvar Aalto and Hans Scharoun. On this tour, you will learn how organic modernism – with its flowing curves, tactile materials, and human-centered design – was used to give a purely industrial city a soul. We decode the concept of the "cityscape" and reveal the democratic ideals embedded in the bricks and glass of these post-war masterpieces. - 4.0 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 113 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in art, design & aesthetics and urbanism & innovation Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Before huge steelworks shaped the modern skyline, Salzgitter was a realm of bubbling brine springs, old forest smithies, and wandering musicians. Accompany a sociologist and a detail-oriented historian on a journey through the Middle Ages and the early modern period. You will discover the underground salt lodes from which the city arose, follow the traces of unscrupulous mercenaries who fought for this 'white gold', and explore the forgotten ruins of the forest smiths. This is the story of how geology shapes destiny and how a small community adapted to the turbulent tides of European history. - 1.6 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 87 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in society, everyday life, and history Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

How do you rebuild a city when ninety percent of its history burns to ashes in a single night? This tour takes you into the heart of Braunschweig, a medieval trading metropolis that had to reinvent itself after the firestorm of 1944. Discover the ideological struggles that shape today's cityscape: the dreams of the car-friendly city, islands of tradition, and modern compromises between commerce and memory culture. From the reconstructed castle that hides a shopping center to the Old Weigh House, first rebuilt in the 1990s, the tour asks: What makes a city authentic? 2.4 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 89 min. Ideal for history, memory, urbanism, and innovation. Excitingly tells in a podcast style from experts and locals. With audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app.

Discover how a single, war-scarred city could host the most complex diplomatic negotiations in European history and thus end the Thirty Years' War. Accompany Max, a historian for the big picture, and Lara, an expert on the hidden details of the city landscape. Experience Osnabrück's development from the diplomatic center of the 17th century to the modern city of peace. You learn about the logistical challenges of housing 109 foreign delegations, the change of Catholic and Protestant bishops, and the moving stories of Erich Maria Remarque and Felix Nussbaum. - 2.5 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 101 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in history & memory and power, protest & public space Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Dive into the magnificent and turbulent world of medieval Brunswick, where the monumental ambitions of a legendary duke clashed with the rising power of a wealthy merchant class. This captivating journey takes you from the epicenter of aristocratic power to the bustling squares of bourgeois rebellion and shows how power is built, challenged, and ultimately transformed. 3.3 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 112 min. Ideal for everyone interested in history & memory and power, protest, public space Excitingly tells in a podcast style from experts and locals Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Dive into the poignant, tragically beautiful world of Felix Nussbaum, a brilliant painter whose life and art were destroyed by the rise of fascism. This captivating journey takes you through the streets of Osnabrück, contrasting the warm, promising places of its youth with the terrifying bureaucratic centers of Nazi terror. The tour culminates in the architectural masterpiece of the Felix-Nussbaum House, where Daniel Libeskind's confusing design makes the psychological burden of exile physically tangible. Prepare yourself for an emotional, intellectual, and unforgettable confrontation with memory, art, and the resistance against forgetting. - 2.4 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 90 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in history, memory, and art, design, and aesthetics Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Dive into the terrifying, meticulously planned grid of a city born from totalitarian ambition. Salzgitter is not just an industrial center; it is an artificial construct that was forcibly built in 1942 to feed the Nazi war machine. On this thoughtful and gloomy tour, you will strip away the layers of architectural idealism to expose the brutal human cost beneath it. From garden city illusions to the silent geometry of mass graves – discover how urban planning was used as a weapon and how a modern city struggles with the ghosts of its dark origins. - 10.6 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 240 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in urbanism, infrastructure & innovation and urbanism & innovation Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Göttingen is not just a picturesque university city, but a permanent ideological battlefield. On this tour, you look behind the postcard-like facades and dive into the contested rooms that make up the true character of the city. From the mysterious, militant conservative student associations of the 19th century to the graffiti-covered strongholds of modern Antifa – you will discover how generations of students have fought for the soul of their society. This is a journey through the architecture of resistance, the paradox of institutional power, and the lasting legacy of radical protests. - 3.7 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 109 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in power, protest & public spaces and power, protest & public space Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Discover the psychological and architectural depths of the reconstruction of Hildesheim after the war. Behind the medieval facades hides a story of survival, trauma, and the modernist dream of the 1950s. This tour shows concrete, clinker, and pastel-colored tiles not as flaws, but as bold witnesses to the rebirth of a city from the ashes of the Second World War. - 1.9 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 82 min. - Ideal for everyone interested in history, memory, art, design, and aesthetics Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Enjoy 5 km of peace and relaxation. Your gondolier is trained in Venice, has been allowed to ride the gondola on the Grand Canal since 2009, and likes to talk about gondolas and Venice. The floating Rolls Royce of the Venetians has been driving on one of the most beautiful tracks in Germany since 2012. There is no fixed route because weather and traffic conditions on the water have to be considered. One, and exit point is definitely identical... and in between is a beautiful ride that has already impressed Gondolieri from Venice. You pass 9 bridges made of wood, masonry, concrete and steel. With a little luck you will also see the kingfishers in the wing meadows while fishing.

Discover the wondrous survival of a city that refused to be wiped out. In exactly eighteen minutes, Hildesheim's medieval heart was turned to ashes in 1945. But today his UNESCO World Heritage Sites stand proudly, and a legendary rose bush continues to bloom. Accompany Max, a historian for the big picture, and Vera, an expert on the microscopic details of the past. It takes you through a breathtaking story of Ottonian masterpieces, devastating destruction, and the tenacious resilience of stone and nature. - A 2.2 km self-guided tour with 7 stops in 95 min. - Ideal for travelers interested in history & memory as well as art, design & aesthetics Told in an immersive podcast style by experts and locals - Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app