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Kassel is an extraordinary city – and a “must” for
anyone visiting Central Germany. It is over 1,000 years
old, yet its city centre shows modern urban architecture
at its best. The Brothers Grimm collected fairy tales
and wrote their epic work of folklore here; today its an
international centre of modern art, music and theatre.
In the centre of the park is a splendid palace, which
contains ancient Greek and Roman works of art, and
paintings by the great German and Flemish masters
(including several Rembrandts). Seldom has the spirit of
the 18th century been better captured than in the
Wilhelmshöhe.
But above all, Kassel must be visited for the
Wilhelmshöhe, the vast hillside park that dominates the
whole city, an astonishing and spectacular combination
of Baroque architecture and landscaping. It is dominated
itself by a huge statue of Hercules, from which descends
a “water staircase” of cascades and falls. |
