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The Brandenburg Gate and Neuschwanstein Castle, Hamburg's harbor and Munich's Oktoberfest, Dresden's Zwinger and Franconian half-timbered villages, more than 20,000 castles and countless important and less important church buildings show only facets of the fascinating whole. As a country in the heart of Europe, Germany stretches from the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas to the mighty Alps, from the Eifel to the Oder, and offers a wide variety of natural and cultural landscapes: from the unique habitat of the Wadden Sea and the popular islands of the North and Baltic Seas such as Sylt and Rügen, to the North German lowlands and the low mountain range, which stretches from the Eifel to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, to Germany's highest point, the summit of the Zugspitze. Germany's rich and eventful past is evidenced by its impressive metropolises, but also picturesque.