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Brunswick (German: Braunschweig) [1] is a city of more than 200,000 in Lower Saxony, Germany.

[edit] Get in

The train station is not very near to the center, so it is best to take the bus or tram.

[edit] Get around

A good choice for sounding out the situation in Braunschweig is walking. For those who have bad feet the second but expensive choice is taking the bus or tram.

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• Dome
• Dankwarderode Castle
• Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (in German)
• Museum der Fotografie (Museum of Photography)
• Prinz Albrecht Park (a nice park, where you can see much people doing barbeque in the summer time)
• State Natural History Museum

[edit][add listing] Do

• Canoeing around the city (go to the Kennedy Place, there is a place for renting)
• Visiting Eintracht Braunschweig, Brunswicks traditional footballteam which plays in Germans third division. Although, about 13.000 people watching the gams in the stadium in the north of Brunswick.

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In spring 2007 the 'Schloss Arkarden' will opened (29. March). The Schloss Arkarden is a big shopping mall whose facade is a reconstrcution of the the facade of an ancient castle of Braunschweig which was ripped down after being bombed out during WWII.

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There are a lot of restaurants in Brunswick. When you are in the city center good choices for a fast meal are the pizza restaurant in the 'Burg Passage' and the dutch french fries "Imbiss" near 'Karstadt'.

A great location for eating is also the Hotel Ritter St. Georg, [2]. It is a bit more expensive but they serve excellent food.

Watch out for seasonal food, such as asparagus, chanterelles, or curly kale, the latter being a specialty of the Brunswick region.

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• Jolly Joker, [3] located in the Brunswick weststadt, [4]. Open Tu, F, Sa from 9PM to around 3AM. Daily drink specials. Ages range from 16 to 25 on an average night, Brunswicks biggest disco.
• DAX Bierbörse, in the center of the city.
• Fritz, [5], near the Schützenplatz.
• Meier Music Hall, [6]. Mostly 'darker' music like metal and so on.
• Bolero, with Mexican restaurant (call ahead for reservation).
• Knochenhauer, with weekly Salsa lessions.
• Latino, on Tuesdays discount for their excellent pizza.
• Okercabana, [7]. An artificial Beach were you can chill to downtempo or jazz music. Sometimes there are live music events.

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[edit] Get out

• The Harz mountains can be reached by public transport (Trains to Bad Harzburg, Wernigerode or Goslar).
• Magdeburg is less than an hour by train.
• Göttingen is one hour by ICE high speed train.
• Wolfenbüttel with its library is 9 mins by train (or 27 by bus).
• The Autostadt Wolfsburg, home of the Volkswagen, is 16 or 24 mins by train.
• phæno [8], a museum with 250 experimental stations in Wolfsburg.
• The former border control post at Marienborn near Helmstedt is now a memorial site.

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