is expanding its vaccination program in the east of the country. the destination i've chosen for today is a small city in the state of tooling and that was home to many cultural luminaries over the centuries. may i present poet and theologians. his contemporary and fellow poet and philosopher krista of the land. and we have composer johann sebastian bach here's a piano virtuoso friends list. but perhaps the two most

famous of all the great writers and thinkers of a yawn was gone from good to and fluidly shut up this is the city of. the works of good to and cilla a great german classics but two hundred years ago they were considered extremely progressive so how has managed time and again to track pioneers and trailblazers contributing to the mix of new and old classics that kenton davy found all around town. we'll check out the modern design classics and the powerhouse museum. will visit hotel elephant a luxury establishment with the three hundred year history. and globe trotters d.v.d.'s will also check in with us from a big team. columbia. my

tour of begins at good his former residence in the very heart of the city the author and naturalists lived here for half a century. be sure to grab an audio guide to get the most out of your visit. to just rented the residence later it was given to him by his patron grand duke ghost. that allowed to remodel and furnish it to his liking. he had this staircase built in the italian style. and. i wonder if the steps week like this back and just day he once wrote that one never tired of going up and down. in the front part of the

house you find elegantly furnished rooms this is where good to welcome to his guests artists scholars politicians and members of the royal family. sculptures were here to remind him of his time in italy there are also busts of had and shela beloved companions who died thirty years before him. figurative family lived in their rear part of the house. and the study the decor was kept at a minimum good job wanted nothing to distract him from thinking and writing. and it was here in his bedroom that good to die at the age of eighty two. this room is referred to as christiane is room in honor of christiane of. his wife the couple lived together for eighteen years before marrying something the citizens

of found scandalous when they finally did get hitched their son was already sixteen years old. the garden behind the house was also part of christiane its role in her day it's applied to household with fruit and vegetables today it's a peaceful green oasis at the end of the museum tour. gets us home it's just one of the many places that recall the golden age of enlightenment and humanism here and by far the most historic sites have been recognised by unesco and let me tell you one day won't be enough to see them off. and should i would have no difficulty finding their way around today it's easy to navigate and much the same as it was in the era it's

a compact city that reinvented itself to into home. centuries ago after assuming the government of his duchy in seven hundred seventy five the young duke of sacks of august summoned talented people to his course and supported them go to first and foremost. also contributed to this city's expansion he created the park under the english style landscape gardens owed much to cater. this had a garden cottage in the park where he could escape from the hustle and bustle of his main residence on farm town st. the duke also had a place of refuge here his roman house may have been a love nest to his daughter fathered thirty eight illegitimate children. in calculus de vine a city palace was a huge construction site after the old palace was destroyed by fire and seven hundred seventy four the deal ordered its reconstruction get ahead of the

commission that rebuilt it. next to the palace is another former work place of the multitalented the duchess on a amalia library named after the duke's mother. one of germany's first public libraries it was open to anyone who could read and write and vinyl was home to many literate people go to it was the library's director for thirty five years. it is the royal summer residence was the baroque belvedere palace just south of weimar. cavalier's house forms part of the ensemble. and once there come a day said the princely household now they used by the university of music plants list as classrooms and rehearsal rooms. so visitors could find themselves treated to a free concert. inside

the palace this play. is he a fine china glassware and furniture that was hand crafted and. belvedere palace just one of the many treasures that comprise the classic vimal entry on the nest those world heritage list. it's almost impossible to get lost in via all you have to do is follow the enticing smell of grilled sausages and you'll end up at the market square.

for it it's fine by a hearty snack it's time to check out the buildings here on the square like the historic town hall. and they come out steamed after the family a famous painter's father and son opened their studio here in fifteen fifty two. here's the guy asked how some spots in bedlam are black bear in and right next door the elephant us most famous hotel. hotel elephant is a true classic for over three hundred years it's been the go to spot for visiting celebrities leo tolstoy bachman hunt's ghost and i'm not going to only name a few a lot of history under one roof but just like the city itself the elephant moves with the times. just to be.

after undergoing major renovations hotel elephant looks modern and elegant once again we do. neither the standard rooms nor the suites look their age though this hotel boasts three centuries of history. the first documented reference to the hotel dates from six hundred ninety six the duke of the time allowed christiane brown owner of the shots of their guest house to open another in. why it was named the elephant has never been fully explained. yet with this book the truth i believe to give it an even more powerful animal was to join the black bear an exotic one letter was to mine distant lands water. and just as back then and if it could be

seen at fair and they were given as gifts by king. in a fun he said i think all of that may have played a role. in this and on a good spirit. later the elephant was expanded to become a postal station and hotel artists and scholars from across europe made their way to weimar can pay their respects to gerta when he celebrated his eightieth birthday at the hotel elephant. later other famous people would check into the elephant including vall took copious lionel finding her and ask when they came to weimar in one nine hundred nineteen and founded the bauhaus school. but those glory days were over by one nine hundred thirty three when hitler came to power weimar had long become a stage for the nazi party and the elephant was hitler's favorite place to stay in town. he ordered the hotel to be torn down and rebuilt. when

it reopened in one nine hundred thirty eight it was touted as the most modern hotel in europe. while the nazis were living it up in town tens of thousands of people were dying from hunger and exhaustion at the book involved concentration camp just outside weimar it's a difficult legacy for the hotel. but often the hotel deals with this openly until liberty because that chapter is unfortunately post of our history . it's important for us to show that this hotel has always been an open meeting place here in the atrium with consciously hung pieces from his whose work was deemed degenerate by the nazis in order to create a counterpoint so that's. in addition to three centuries of history hotel elephant also boasts its own art collection many works were done by regular guests and

include a fair number of elephants. trying one regional specialty tooling across at the market another is closer potato dumplings they served in virtually every restaurant environment. in high school time just outside of town you can learn how to make them in a cooking class and how best to do that is a science in itself luckily i've got yoga to show me how it's done. you should plan on three large potatoes per person who is called first they have to be peeled. but not all dumplings are the same right why is that. it's mainly a geographical distinction in the south in italy they make their small round yaki

farther north in austria and bavaria there call. and here in turning them they're known as close. after their peel the potatoes are great it but watch your fingers. are the. words that are degraded contain no mass is then put into a little clock back and pressed. until it's completely dry. now we prepare extremely running mashed potatoes and make this with the dr out. there so there's no not a lot of time with. the little your windows shouldn't be too thick or too liquid that's the tricky part. if you roasted crew transfer inside the middle and that's. to cut

the potato as it should be a song what a nice way to put it in the home in. the round dumplings are then dropped into hot salt water but they shouldn't boil there only in there too steep for twenty to thirty minutes that's how these dumplings have been made for centuries and that's exactly the reason people love the dumpling making seminar. here and some make a family event of it was your mom does the chance for grandma to show her grandkids no matter how often no longer learn how to do it at home. or people book the class for work parties or as a team building exercise. it's a way to have fun together. and doubling the rises to the surface can be considered quite an accomplishment right. when the dumplings rise that means they're done and done right. while this looks like

a food coma in the making while i work on these dumplings you guys get to check in with our globe trotters steve she's back in south america and this time we caught up with him in the colombian city of many. hello and welcome to maybe she was just the second largest city of colombia and full contrasts so let's go there and explore the city. to start things off the machine we're also taking part in a brief walk into work to get introduction to the city.

interesting thing about this tour expenditure transformation of maybe she apart from seeing the main sites you also get to see some neighborhoods this one for example was on the garbage pile so we get to learn a bit about three and a transformation of the neighborhood from a garbage pile where actually maybe with a park up. with its many hotels homes restaurants bars and clubs have a lot of is the most popular neighborhood in all of maybe she's traveled and it's pretty colorful touristy but they're also very safe. because mining is looking many still trying to. get out of this field and this is probably the most friends with the best views so it's a good idea to come on one of these people because you're in so i'm just seeing the

spirit of the city of cleveland. we're now on public property a popular school but it was one of his the. a bridge below us and it's also right by the lake pretty pretty tough story actually. nowadays you can come to this property and you can see the remains of the house and it was actually called think i did i don't really and this was the name of his daughter let's have a look at the buildings. in the house itself you can still find some fools. in the schools that actually found money here because paul group used to hide a lot of money on his property is.

one of the reasons why many city are the many parks you can find here that escapes from the housing and bustling city one of the most beautiful. book i'm equal to ten o'clock gardens which are located right next to the university so you can drive with the metro to desperation or you get that there's just a two minute walk to enter the park which is totally free. inside here i'll keep you what i am which is a wooden structure built to collect rain water and to show off thanks to many butterflies. here and via if you stroll around town chances are pretty good that you'll pass by the good and schiller statue at least once but that's not the only interesting site

on the square right behind it is the german national theatre. in one thousand nine hundred in the aftermath of the first world war and the fall of the german empire this is where envoys from all over germany came. together at the time a lot safer than turbulent berlin so the national assembly convened here to draw up a new constitution for the first german democracy the weimar republic and that happened in this theater. nine hundred nineteen was an exciting year inviting the bauhaus a school that would reshape the way the world thinks about design opened its doors its director architect invited famous artists to the city. and. the bauhaus architects built their first model home environment house i'm haunted with its minimalist form and modern materials and introduced a new approach to house. twenty nineteen environment inaugurated

a new home for other revolutionary bauhaus designs a tribute to the creative minds behind the movement and celebration of its centennial no audio guide here when you can download an app to your phone that will guide you through the museum. this is a famous cradle and utilized condition ski's color theory. must be blue squares red and triangles yellow the design is still produced today and can be yours for one thousand eight hundred eighty euros. the centerpiece of the museum. collection if you chose one hundred seventy pieces that were to stay in volume when the bauhaus moved to death and nine hundred twenty five many of these objects never moved beyond the experimental phase whereas others became famous the world over this lamp by bill has been felled this teapot by money on

a blond. cantilever chairs all of them modern classics. but are they comfortable here you can test them yourself. powells was characterized by its interdisciplinary approach on the stage all scotch lemon turned his dancers and to mechanical figurines that she added ballet with its geometric costumes is still as guard today about how it was always inquisitive experimental and very much ahead of its time. after getting arts and culture effects and it's time to take a little trip into the wild no better way to do so than my joining one of our viewers on vacation jack clark from president australia was in the us and visit at the zion and bryce canyon national parks and into a secular. because

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a.c.c. gallery a.c.c. stands for autonomous cultural center its director flag monks found at the center with friends and nine hundred eighty seven the one time i was still part of communist east germany they squatted in an abandoned building. and saved it from decay old newspaper articles document the sorry state of the building when they found it and the amount of work they invested in fixing it up a documentary was even made about it. most of the. council this was new it was a clearly a very democratic project and it seems every detail was discussed as a group. just of the. today the a.c.c. is a gallery with an international scholarship scheme and the past thirty years the a.c.c. has hosted nearly two hundred fifty exhibitions with over

a thousand participating artists. and i think they are setting up the a.c.c. was a dream for you what are your goals for the future what's still to come. and they are this. if it were up to me things can stay just as they are this is our building we want to stay here and breathe new life into weimar's classical mindset with our contemporary dalliances in artistry and. not believe the time or doesn't exactly live for contemporary art and culture rather it lives from the past and so we are a good counter agent we have been for the last thirty years and we want to continue to be one. so what would you say me a.z.z. as a viable classical indian this is absolutely the a.c.c. is a by mark classic. because weimar still lacks a great contemporary art museum to go along with its great cultural sites. and for the cause of at the risk of sounding smug we're the only program at

a contemporary art gallery here that's active at the international level of interest and even. so that's why the a.c.c. gallery has become a. assoc that's if you go from b. go look at the classical is you know a modern one o one class on modern classic yes what makes a classic thirty years like the a.c.c. one hundred years like bauhaus are good and the like the only true aspirants to the title and the end of the day it doesn't really matter one thing is for sure here and you'll get to experience german history more vividly than an almost any other city in the country.

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