Germany hotels collection

Dresden rebuilt the Frauenkirche from its own rubble: the blackened blocks went back into place among the new sandstone, and the walls wear their two shades without trying to reconcile them. In Lübeck, stepped gables rise in brick, red or glazed black; on the Moselle, vines cling to slopes of slate that give back the day's heat at night; on Rügen, the chalk cliffs Caspar David Friedrich painted whiten the shore beneath the beeches. On Sundays the shops close, and a good part of the country goes walking in the woods.