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    Stuttgart

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    Stuttgart

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    Stuttgart, with around 613,000 inhabitants, is Baden-Württemberg's largest city and has been its state capital since 1952.

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    Stuttgart, with around 613,000 inhabitants, is Baden-Württemberg's largest city and has been its state capital since 1952. The city center lies in a valley basin; nearly 350 meters in altitude separate the lowest and highest points of the urban area. Stairs, known as 'Stäffele,' connect the hillside areas, and wine grows on 423 hectares right in the city.In the city center, the Schlossplatz opens up, featuring the baroque New Palace. Stuttgart is world-renowned as a car city: The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Bad Cannstatt and the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen tell the story of two brands. Additionally, there's the Wilhelma, a zoological-botanical garden set in a historic Moorish-style complex.
    Stuttgart has around 613,000 inhabitants and is Baden-Württemberg's largest city; the region counts some 2.8 million people. The city center sits in a valley basin; on its slopes, stairs, the Stäffele, help you, and Stuttgart has Germany's only inner-city rack railway. S-Bahn, Stadtbahn, and buses run at night on weekends too. Notable features include vineyards reaching into the city center, and the automotive history of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Besides Mitte with Schlossplatz, Bad Cannstatt (featuring Wilhelma, the Mercedes-Benz Museum and Cannstatter Wasen) and Zuffenhausen (with the Porsche Museum) are recommended.

    Sights in Stuttgart

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    Porsche Museum
    Museum

    1Porsche Museum

    Opened in 2009, the Delugan Meissl building at Porscheplatz in Zuffenhausen showcases approximately 80 vehicles and 200 smaller exhibits across 5,600 square meters.
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    Mercedes-Benz Museum
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    2Mercedes-Benz Museum

    The UNStudio museum, opened in 2006, covers the brand's history on approx. 17,000 sqm across nine levels. It is in Bad Cannstatt, directly in front of the Untertürkheim plant.
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    Palace Square and New Palace
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    3Palace Square and New Palace

    The central square, featuring the 1841 Jubilee Column, lies between the Königsbau and the baroque New Palace, which began construction in 1746. Currently, it houses two state ministries, and regular guided tours have been offered since 2014.
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    Wilhelma
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    4Wilhelma

    King Wilhelm I. had the site built in the Moorish style from 1846; today it is Germany's only state zoological-botanical garden. On around 30 hectares, approximately 11,000 animals live, along with some 8,500 plant species.
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    Stuttgart TV Tower
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    5Stuttgart TV Tower

    The 217-meter tower, built from 1954, was the world's first TV tower. Up top, two observation decks and a panoramic café await you.
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    Restaurants in Stuttgart

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    Valle

    Lively Italian restaurant featuring pizza, pasta, fish, and meat dishes, and a glass-enclosed terrace.
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    ABACCO'S Steakhouse

    Modern steakhouse with American meat from a Swiss grill stone, leather furniture, and a large window front.
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    Dilgelay

    Turkish restaurant with Döner, vegetarian stone-baked pizza and homemade baklava in wood decor and bistro flair.
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    Cars, Wine and Folk Festival

    Since 1818, Stuttgart holds the Cannstatter Volksfest on the Cannstatter Wasen. The city operates its own winery, and late August or early September sees the Weindorf on Marktplatz and Schillerplatz. The two main car museums are top attractions: The Mercedes-Benz Museum welcomed its nine-millionth visitor in April 2018.In the evening, you'll find bars and clubs along Theodor-Heuss-Straße and at Rotebühlplatz, while it's cozier around the Hans-im-Glück-Brunnen.

    Nightlife

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    BIX Jazzclub & Lounge

    Chic, modern club featuring live jazz and an upstairs bar for cocktails and food.
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    Jigger & Spoon

    Chic cocktail bar with retro flair in a former bank vault, a cigar lounge, and regular live piano music.
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    Kowalski

    Club with rotating Electronica DJs, many plants, and a terrace under colorful parasols.
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    Out and about in Stuttgart

    The S-Bahn (S1 to S6, S60), Stadtbahn (U1 to U15) and bus network connects all districts, also at night on weekends. The S2 or S3 takes you from Hauptbahnhof to the airport in around 27 minutes. Wilhelma and Mercedes-Benz Museum are in Bad Cannstatt, Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen. In the city center, Schlossplatz and Neues Schloss are easily reached on foot; for the hills, take the Stäffele and the Zahnradbahn.

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    Heidelberg & Neckar

    Heidelberg & Neckar

    The Neckar links two distinct cities in Baden-Württemberg: Stuttgart, the state capital in its valley location, with the river flowing through its northeast, and Heidelberg, where it exits the Odenwald into the Upper Rhine Plain. Heidelberg's castle ruin above the old town attracts, according to its administration, around a million guests annually.Here, experience the romance of Germany's oldest university city, alongside car city Stuttgart with its Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums. Stuttgart's vineyards reach right into the city centre, and Wilhelma in Bad Cannstatt ranks among Germany's most visited zoos.
    Baden-Baden

    Baden-Baden

    Baden-Baden liegt am Westrand des Nordschwarzwalds im Tal der Oos und zählt seit Juli 2021 als eine der elf "Great Spa Towns of Europe" zum UNESCO-Welterbe. Schon die Römer badeten am Florentinerberg, wo heute das Friedrichsbad steht, und im 19. Jahrhundert wurde die Stadt zu einem der bekanntesten Kurorte Europas.Herz der Stadt ist das klassizistische Kurhaus von Friedrich Weinbrenner mit seiner Spielbank, dahinter beginnt die Lichtentaler Allee entlang der Oos. Für den Blick von oben fährt die Merkurbergbahn seit 1913 auf den 669 Meter hohen Merkur.
    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg is situated on the Neckar, precisely where the river exits the Odenwald and flows into the Upper Rhine Plain. The Old Town stretches narrowly between the river and the 568-meter-high Königstuhl, topped by the famous castle ruin, which French troops set ablaze in 1689 and blew up in 1693.Founded in 1386, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität is Germany's oldest university and continues to shape the city today. You can stroll along the approximately 1.6-kilometer-long Hauptstraße, one of Europe's longest pedestrian zones, cross the Alte Brücke, and look back at the castle and Old Town from the Philosophenweg on the opposite side of the Neckar.
    Speyer

    Speyer

    Speyer is located on the Rhine, which here forms the border between Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, just under 20 kilometers south of Mannheim. The city, with around 51,000 inhabitants, boasts two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Imperial Cathedral (Kaiserdom), consecrated in 1061, the largest preserved Romanesque church after the destruction of Cluny, and the Jewish Courtyard (Judenhof) with its synagogue ruins and Germany's oldest completely preserved mikveh.From Cathedral Square, Maximilianstraße, a pedestrian zone, leads to the 55-meter-high Altpörtel, the city's former western gate. Additionally, you'll find the Historical Museum of the Palatinate with its cathedral treasury, and the Technik Museum, where you can see, among other things, a Boeing 747 and the Buran prototype OK-GLI.
    Black Forest

    Black Forest

    Der Schwarzwald im Südwesten Baden-Württembergs ist das höchste und größte zusammenhängende Mittelgebirge Deutschlands: Auf über 6.000 Quadratkilometern erstreckt er sich rund 150 Kilometer von Nord nach Süd, im Westen begrenzt von der Oberrheinebene, im Süden vom Hochrhein. Höchster Gipfel ist der Feldberg mit 1.493 Metern. Seit 2014 schützt der Nationalpark Schwarzwald zwischen Baiersbronn und Baden-Baden gut 10.000 Hektar auf dem Hauptkamm des Nordschwarzwalds.Kein anderes deutsches Mittelgebirge zieht so viele Urlauber an. Du kombinierst hier lebendige Städte wie Freiburg und die Kurstadt Baden-Baden mit Wasserfällen, Seen wie dem Titisee und einer langen Tradition des Uhrmacherhandwerks, das zwischen Triberg und Titisee-Neustadt seine Anfänge nahm.