Stuttgart Public Transportation
Stuttgart transportation system follows simple idea 'one ticket for one ride' no matter if you use local train tube or bus.The tickets are issued by Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart (VVS) and often referred as VVS tickets. The city with the suburbian area is divided into several zones, most of the hotels in the centre and the monuments are in the zones 10 and 20. Outside the centre are for example Ludwigsburg, Airport and Stuttgart fair, thus they require the extended tickets. VVS tickets are valid in: metro lines (Stadtbahn) defined by U- Bahn signs, the commuting local trains identified as S-Bahn and ...
Stuttgart and Baden Wurttemberg
Stuttgart There are million and one things to do in Stuttgart. It is recommended to start at the Tourist Office outside of the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof and then spend at least half a day walking down Koenigstrasse. Stop at an outdoor cafe, or enjoy some ice cream in summer, or put on your ice skates in winter. There is lots of shopping and site seeing in a one mile radius of the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof.
Schloss Neuschwanstein
Neuschwanstein was started by Ludwig II (or Mad King Ludwig) in 1868, only four years after he became King. It is falsely considered to be the inspiration for Disney’s Cinderella Castle. Instead, Sleeping Beauty’s castle was based on Neuschwanstein. Though the castle isn’t old, it is one of the most visited and photographed castles in Germany. If you’ve even seen a guide book of Germany, you know what it looks like. Unfortunately, the castle was never finished as Ludwig died before its completion.
Munich
Neue Pinakothek
Founded by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, to house his privately financed collection of works by contemporary artists, Neue Pinakothek
today is the leading European art collection with works from classicism to art nouveau period, ranging from 1780 to 1910.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Tour
The tour brings the uneasy experience of World War II through the remains of former Nazi concentration camp.
Dachau was the ‘Academy of Terror’, the originator, role-model and training ground for the vast order of brutality that spread over half of Europe in the wake of the armies of the Third Reich.
Munich Churches
As the name suggests the city Munichen ( ‘at Monks’) features enormous number of church buildings.
Besides of Benedictine Abbey and the Arcbishopric Palace there are numerous churches with hundred years of history.
Below are the most important ones, located around the Main Market Square.
Castles
Hohenschwangau Castle
The present castle, where King Ludwig II of Bavaria spent his childhood has been built during the reign of his father Maximilian of Bavaria , who in 1832 commissioned the renovation of medieval ruins of former castle Schwanstein. The new building followed the neo-Gothic style of Domenico Quaglio.
Schlosscard
The SCHLOSSCARD is the collection of 21 tickets, which allows to visit 21 important cultural monuments of Baden-Württemberg.
As the name suggests the places are mostly the castles and palaces, but the offer includes also the most important monasteries, some ruins and historic gardens.
Valid for one full year, the card is the moneysaver for the visitors [...]
Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg
In 1704 the works were started on the new summer residence for Württemberg family, that was originally supposed to be only the hunting lodge of Duke Eberhard Ludwig,
but soon developed into much bigger palace complex. The Duke moved into the Palace in 1709 and, following the temporary fashion, established the town around his residence.
In [...]
