ART, LIKE MORALITY, CONSISTS OF DRAWING
THE LINE SOMEWHERE.
THE ALPS, VIEWED FROM THE SWITZERLAND SIDE.
The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain
range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia
in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and
Germany to France in the west. The word Alps means mountains.
The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4810 meters
on the French-Italian border.
THE MAIN HALL OF NYMPHENBURG, OVERLOOKING THE GARDENS.
Schloss (palace) Nymphenburg is a huge, impressive baroque castle just
outside the centre of Munich.
It served as a summer palace to the famous Wittelsbach family.
Here lived also King Ludvig II
who had the "fairytale castle" Neuschwanstein built. There's
also the Royal Stables Museum,
a grotto and other palaces like Amalienburg
The Mozarts lived in 9 Getreidegasse from 1747 to 1773,
and their son Wolfgang Amadeus was born there in 1756.
Today, the home of the Mozart family is a museum where famous
exhibits are displayed. Among other attractions, visitors to
the museum can see the violin played by the world-famous
musical genius as a child, his concert violin, his clavichord,
a pianoforte, portraits, and letters of the Mozart family.
A CASTLE OVERLOOKING THE RHINE RIVER
DYING LION OF LUCERNE
The 'Dying Lion of Lucerne' is one of the world's most famous
monuments. In 1812 it was hewn out of natural rock in memory of
the heroic death of the Swiss guards at the Tuileries in 1792.
Mark Twain described the Lion of Lucerne as 'the saddest and
most moving piece of rock in the world'.
