The Autostadt in Wolfsburg

18 January 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Customer Centre and Car Towers © Mokka

Customer Centre and Car Towers © Mokka

The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide to the evolution of roads, and cinema in a large sphere. It is also home to the largest glass doors in the world and the longest printed line. The line starts from outside Wolfsburg and travels through Autostadt to a point on a farm. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) long.   read more…

Beer, Škoda, Plzeň – Czech Republic

20 January 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture, European Union, European Capital of Culture Reading Time:  7 minutes

West Bohemian Museum © Norbert Aepli

West Bohemian Museum © Norbert Aepli

Plzeň (English: Pilsen) is a city in western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Plzeň Region and the fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic. It is located about 90 km west of Prague at the confluence of four rivers–the Radbuza, the Mže, the Úhlava, and the Úslava–which form the Berounka River. The city is known worldwide for Pilsener beer. Pilsen was in September 2010 selected by an official jury to be put forward to join the Belgian city of Mons as the European capital of culture in 2015.   read more…

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