Tag: Eagle’s Nest
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The Eagle’s Nest, Bavaria, Germany
The first thing you notice about Germany’s Kehlsteinhaus, or ‘Eagle’s Nest’ is the approach road that climbs 800 metres up the side of a mountain, without one hairpin bend. An engineering marvel, the road contains five tunnels in its 6.5 kilometres. It was built in 1937, as part of the Eagle’s Nest – a 50th…