kassel is the biggest city in northern Hesse, Germany, located on Fulda. With its 0.2 million inhabitants an ancient city first reported in 913. Historically significant city and is the factual merge of neoteric and archaic architecture, a great excursion offers ubiquitous beauty, exciting parks, majestic palace building, noble castles and aesthetically pleasing museums.

The Wilhelmshohe Palace built in 1786; a marvelous building on hilltop and nowadays houses the art gallery with collection of paintings and antiques. The Oktagon, the octagonal designed exterior of the building is outstanding and grounds the symbolic statue of Hercules. This is surrounded by a fantastic Bergpark Wilhelmshohe ornate the palace, the excellent view of the cascading waterfall which runs through 250 meters which ends up in a lake of Wilhelmshohe, with a 50 meters big fountain, worth a visit. The lowenburg (Lion Castle) a redolent of historical medieval castle, it is now exhibiting the artifacts, most of them are medieval armaments and armor.

The Ballhaus, a small neoclassical building in Kassel served as theater, transformed to ballroom, now it is used as a display space for art exhibitions.

Do you have impulsive passion for modern and contemporary art, so don’t miss to visit the outstanding impressive collections in tremendous museums of Kassel. The popular Hessen Regional Museum (Hessisches Landesmuseum) situated in Kassel in a magnificent Baroque building built in 1910, remarkable display of astronomical instruments, anthropology collection, myths and chronological. Another famous museum dedicated to Grimm brothers and their fairy-tales and myths, the amazing Brothers Grimm Museum (Bruder Grimm Museum) located in center of Kassel. The Kunsthalle Friedrichsplatz built between 1769 and 1776 located in famous square of Kassel the Friedichsplatz, considered as the second public museum of Europe following London’s British Museum, presenting entire range of art and also popular for its Documental multimedia art fiesta.

One of first of its kind in Germany the Kassel Hauptbahnhof (Main Train Station) renowned for mocking and comic art displayed in accompanying gallery. If you want to view the world’s first biggest skeleton of mammal, Goehte Elephant and an eternal experience of Schilbach Wood Library then visit the Ottoneum, the old theater in Kassel built in 1605, now serves as the Natural History Museum (Naturkundemuseum).

One of the superb attractions for the visitors in Kassel is Blumeninsel Siebenbergen Island with Karlsau Park. The island is a breathtaking recreation with green foliage, flowerbeds, cobbled walkways and exotic plants.