🏛️ Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

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Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a landscape park in Kassel, Germany. The area of the park is 2.4 square kilometres, making it the largest European hillside park, and second largest park on a hill slope in the world. Construction of the Bergpark, or "mountain park", began in 1689 at the behest of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and took about 150 years. The park is open to the public today. Since 2013, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its monumental Baroque architecture and its unique fountains and water features.

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Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a cultural World Heritage site in Germany, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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