Europe Quick Trips

Photos by Kevin Dougherty/Stars and Stripes

Two museums recall battles, life in Netherlands

The little-known tank battle lasted three weeks. By the time the fighting migrated to the south and east, there wasn’t much left of the Dutch village of Overloon. Only one house survived intact.

With beautiful views, Hohenzollern Castle's mountaintop site is popular with tourists

Atop a foothill of the Swabian Alb mountain range, about 40 miles south of Stuttgart, Germany, the house of the Hohenzollerns stands over the trees in an image that seems to have leapt from the pages of a fairy tale. Hohenzollern Castle, built in the 11th century, was the home of the Hohenzollern family who ruled Prussia and Brandenburg in the Middle Ages.

Comforts for creatures

"How did they get up there?" I watched, bewildered, as about a dozen mountain goats bounded around a cliff that went up at least 100 feet, bouncing acrobatically up and down ledges to get where they wanted to be in their home away from home.

Monster links: Castles share name with horror classic

Interested in visiting Frankenstein’s castle this Halloween? In western Germany, you have two good options — one with a tenuous link to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, the other only to its name.

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Take a trip through the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, and you will understand why German engineering has become so iconic.

Artistic Rovereto: Italian city offers modern museums, colorful churches

If it weren’t for Autostrada 22, the city of Rovereto, Italy, would be even farther off the main tourist routes. So it might be somewhat surprising to run across the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto in the small city along the Adige River.