A former port of the Hanseatic League, the city of Stade is located along the Elbe River west of Hamburg. Stade’s heyday was the 13th to 17th centuries, during which time the town was Hamburg’s main rival as the region’s ...

Osnabrück is an ancient city in Lower Saxony, located between Dortmund and Bremen, it developed in the Middle Ages (VIII century) as a bishop’s residence and seat of an important market, Charlemagne founded one of the oldest gymnasiums in Europe, ...

Leipzig, the most important city in Saxony together with Dresden, is famous for its musical and literary traditions, linked to the names of great composers, writers and mathematicians such as Bach, Wagner, Nietzsche, Leibniz and Mendelssohn. The city originated in ...

Würzburg is an interesting German city in northern Bavaria, located between Nuremberg and Frankfurt, full of many tourist attractions, the city is the terminal point of the Romantische Strasse one of the most beautiful tourist roads in Germany, which crosses ...

Magdeburg is a historic German city, located along the Elbe River southwest of Berlin, the capital of Saxony Anhalt. Ancient city of the Hanseatic League, which later became the largest fortified center of Prussia, Magdeburg was largely destroyed during the ...

The city of Weimar is an important historic German city in Thuringia, located southwest of Leipzig, between Erfurt and Jena. Weimar is known both because between 1919 and 1933 it was the seat of the German Weimar republic, and for ...

The city of Ulm, located along the banks of the Danube, hosts in the square of the cathedral of Ulm (Münsterplatz), a Lutheran church with the tallest stone bell tower in the world that exceeds 161 meters in height, a ...

Michelstadt im Odenwald is a small town in Hesse, in the Odenwald, located about 80 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main. The town has ancient origins, the first documentation dates back to the Middle Ages (8th century), when a castle was ...

Located on the eastern outskirts of Stuttgart, the city of Esslingen am Neckar, an ancient medieval merchant city, located along an important commercial communication route between Italy and Germany. Free Imperial City for over six centuries, spared from the devastation ...

Rust is a small town in Baden-Württemberg located along the Rhine valley close to the border with France, and a few kilometers from the cities of Strasbourg, Colmar and Freiburg in Breisgau (Freiburg im Breisgau). Rust has become famous for ...

The city of Aachen, located near the borders with Belgium and Holland, is the ancient imperial capital of the Holy Roman Empire, made famous by Charlemagne and Frederick Barbarossa. The cathedral of the city has been a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Reutlingen is a German town which is located about 40 km south of Stuttgart. The history of Reutlingen begins in the Middle Ages, to be precise in the 11th century, when a  medieval castle was built on the site of ...

A town in central-eastern Hesse near the border with Bavaria and Thuringia, Fulda had its origins in the 8th century with the founding of a monastery. The city is famous for its Baroque style buildings, built in the 18th century ...

Karlsruhe, located between Stuttgart and Mannheim, along the river Rhine, not far from the border with France. The origin of Karlsruhe dates back to the eighteenth century, when the Margrave Charles William of Baden-Durlach had his new residence (Karlsruher Schloss) ...

Bonn, the birthplace of Ludwig van Beehthoven and the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, is an interesting city to visit, conveniently located along the Rhine on one of the most beautiful stretches of its course. The historic ...