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Quick Trips: Germany\'s Schwetzingen Palace now offers ...

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=103&art [2008-7-28]

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Quick Trips: Germanys Schwetzingen Palace now offers English-language tours By Nancy Montgomery , Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, July 1, 2008


Once upon a time, the Heidelberg princes bought a small palace touse as a hunting lodge. It proved a wise investment.
The palace housed many nobles over the centuries, including themistress of one prince who bore him 14 children. He rode his horsefrom Heidelberg to visit her, and the stoplight-free trip tookabout 30 minutes, just like nowadays in a car.
The goings-on at Schwetzingen Palace and its beautiful gardencenturies ago  such as the time young Mozart and his father waitedfor an audience, or the times Voltaire visited and Casanova playedcards  are now accessible for the first time to most Americans.
English-language tours of the baroque palace, now owned by thestate of Baden-W

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