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10am-6pm),
slightly to the east. Built in the Byzantine style in 1882, it's topped with a
brilliantly golden onion dome.
Lichtentaler Allee concludes at the
Kloster Lichtenthal
, a Cistercian abbey founded in
1245, with an abbey church, open daily, where generations of the margraves of Baden lie
buried.
Museum Frieder Burda
(
www.museum-frieder-burda.de
;
Lichtentaler Allee 8b; adult/concession €10/8;
10am-6pm Tue-Sun)
A Joan Miró sculpture guards the front of this architecturally innov-
ative gallery, designed by Richard Meier. The star-studded collection of modern and con-
temporary art, featuring works by Picasso, Gerhard Richter and Jackson Pollock, is com-
plemented by temporary exhibitions, such as the recent retrospective of American surreal-
ist William Copley.
GALLERY
GALLERY
Staatliche Kunsthalle
(
www.kunsthalle-baden-baden.de
;
Lichtentaler Allee 8a; adult/concession €5/4;
10am-6pm Tue-Sun)
Sidling up to the Museum Frieda Burda is this sky-lit gallery, which
showcases rotating exhibitions of contemporary art in neoclassical surrounds. Recently it
zoomed in on Belgian visual artist Jan de Cock, postmodern painter Georg Baselitz and
the collage-style works of Kenyan artist Wangechi Mut.
Stiftskirche
(Marktplatz; 8am-6pm daily)
The centrepiece of cobbled Marktplatz is this pink
church, a hotchpotch of Romanesque, late Gothic and, to a lesser extent, baroque styles.
Its foundations incorporate some ruins of the former Roman baths. Come in the early af-
ternoon to see its stained-glass windows cast rainbow patterns across the nave.
CHURCH
Römische Badruinen
(Römerplatz; adult/concession €2.50/1; 11am-noon & 3-4pm mid-Mar-mid-Nov)
The
beauty-conscious Romans were the first to discover the healing properties of Baden-
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
