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Pope Benedict's Pilgrimage

Pope Benedict XVI will meet Muslim and Christian leaders as well as foreign diplomats Saturday on the second day of his visit to Lebanon. Beirut (dpa) - The pope spent the night about 30 kilometers north-east of Beirut. People had lined the

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Pope's speech in Beirut

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday addressed around 30,000 young Lebanese Muslims and Christians at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Maronite Christian Patriarchate in Bkriki, north-east of Beirut. Beirut (dpa) - "I also learned that there

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The grim trail of death

Pope Benedict XVI ended his three-day visit to Lebanon on Sunday with a call for unity among Christians and Muslims in the Middle East and for peace in neighbouring Syria. The pontiff landed at Rome‘s Ciampino airport shortly after 9:30 pm (1930

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The Golden Road

It is not a bad thing for us, that the route known as the ‘Goldene Straße’ or the ‘Golden Road’ as we will get to know it- has escaped the attention of so many. It has been spared being overrun by hordes of tourists and as you will discover

The Creation of the Golden Tour

The title ‘The Golden Road’ is so much more than a name. A single route, marked on the map in gold was originally sponsored and planned by Charles IV, who bought up swathes of land in the region known as New Bohemia. The route leads through

The Author’s Tips

A list of ‘Must Sees’ put together by the author's and photgraphers of the "Golden Road", in an alphabetic order. Amberg: Air Museum Cheb: Kaiserpfalz Hersbruck: Slow City Hirschau: Geopark Kaolinrevier

The Golden Tour- an Aperitif

So let’s begin with a question: What am I? I have a shimmering name, but I am mostly grey. At my most Easterly point a Kaiser set his court scientists the task of producing a metal after which I am named. At my most Westerly point there is a

Calendar

The Golden Road has nearly 700 years of history 14th May 1316 - Karl (Charles) IV 1353- The Palatinate family Wittelsbach pawned a territory to Charles IV from Hersbruck to Neustadt, which expanded ‘New Bohemia’ creating a transit