Germany

Federal Republic

Germany is a
Federal Country
which has 16
Federal States. It's
on the “heart” of
Europe.

Each state has its
own constitution,
parliament and
government.

Germany is the country with the highest
population on the European Union (82,5 million
inhabitants).

There are a lot of immigrants: 7,3 million.
 THE CLIMATE


Cold winters and cool summers. In the centre
temperatures are more extreme but prolonged
periods of frost or snow are not common. Rain
falls throught the year.

Extremes commonly
reach -10°C in winter
and 35°C in the
summer months.
 NATURAL 
HERITAGE 

Germany receives millions of tourists every 
year. Many of them visit the country’s 
attractive nature reserves. 
   

ATTRACTIO
Neuschwanstein 
NS


castle is a 19th 
century 
Bavarian castle 
on a rugged hill. 
The palace was 
commissioned by 
Ludwig II of 
Bavaria known 
as the "Insane 
King“. It is one of 
the country's 
most popular 
tourist 
destinations.
 ATTRACTIONS

In Germany there 
are 600 fine arts 
museums: 

WolfsburgArt 
museum, New  
Weimar Museum,  
Folkwang 
Museum, Ludwig 
Museum, Bode 
Museum, etc.
GASTRONOMY (FOOD)

German 
people love 

cheese and 
beer.
GASTRONOMY 
(WINE)

The German 
wines grow up in 
13 zones. 

There are more 
than 140 varieties.

They are exported 
to USA, UK, 
Japan, Norway, 
Sweden,...
 GASTRONOMY (MEAL 
TIMES)

In  Germany  the  meal  times  are 
earlier  than  in  Spain.  They  have 
lunch  between  12:00  and  14:30  and 
at night, they usually have dinner at 
20:00.
   GERMAN RECIPE: 
CURRYWURST

Put the ketchup in a

saucepan and warm to slow
fire. Add curry. Then sugar,
salt and pepper.

INGREDIENTS: Add spices or paprika. Fry



ketchup
spices or paprika
the sausages in a frying pan

sugar with butter. You could also
salt and pepper
grill it. Slice the sausages and



curry
butter
spill the sauce on them.



fried potatoes

Bratwurst Germany sausages
 POPULAR TRADITIONS

“Polka” is a very 
traditional 
dancing from 
Austria but it's 
very popular in 
the zone of 
Bavaria. It's a 
fast dance which 
is danced by 
couples or groups.
POPULAR 

TRADITIONS

There is an 
important rock 
festival called 
“Rock am Ring” at 
Nürburgring. It is 
also the track for a 
Formula One 
grand prix.
      
POPULAR
TRADITIO
NS

Oktoberfest is a 
 festival held 
each year in 
Munich, in 
October. It is the 
world's largest 
fair. People drink 
beer and eat 
German 
specialities.
 RELIGIO
N
• Christianity is the 
largest religion in 
Germany 73%. Then 
Islam 4% followed by 
Buddhism and 
Judaism.
• Protestants are 39%, 
Catholics are 31%, 
• The present pope,
Orthodox are 4,7%, 
Benedict XVI
nonreligious 25%.
(Joseph Ratzinger)
is German.
 RELIGION

Luther established 
Protestantism in 
1515 challenging 
the Catholic 
Church as he saw 
it as a corruption 
of Christian faith. 
It holds that 
Scripture is the 
source of revealed 
truth.

The third  RELIGION: 
religion in  ISLAM 
importance in  IN GERMANY 
Germany is 
the Islam. A 
4%.

This is 
because there 
are a lot of 
inmigrants 
from Turkey.
 CLICHES OR 
STEREOTYPES

They don't like smiling a lot.
 
They are very neat 
and they like recycling.

They are very 

hard­working and

very skillful people.

They have 
the only 
female 
Prime 
Minister in 
Europe.
Angela Merkel
 AN IMPORTANT WOMAN

Hildegard Von Bingen 
(1098­1179) 

German scientist, philosopher, 
theologian and composer.

Hildegard was considered, by historians 
to be among the most important 
scientists of her age and perhaps the 
most significant woman scientist in 
Medieval Europe.

She was also considered a healer and 
early theologian and she was venerated 
in the church.
   GROUP MEMBERS

Inmaculada López Cubero

Bibiana Granados Jurado

Beatriz Cabello Barón

Paola Lira García

 IES Blas Infante. Córdoba. Spain. ICT Tourism.

 For Comenius A World of Differences and School Peace Project
 January 2009