Stuttgart

Stuttgart is world-famous as the cradle of the automobile and home to the headquarters and museums of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Located in a valley surrounded by vineyards, it is also renowned for its green spaces, the Wilhelma zoo/botanical garden, and a strong culture of ballet, opera, and wine.

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Date: Feb 28

Geissenklösterle

Geissenklösterle is an archaeological site of significance for the central European Upper Paleolithic, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the Swabian Jura. First explored in 1963, the cave contains traces of early prehistoric art from between 43,000 and 30,000 years ago, including some of the oldest-known musical instruments and several animal figurines. Because of the historical and cultural importance of these findings, in 2017 the site became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura. These archaeological sites feature some of the oldest figurative art worldwide and help shed light on the origins of human artistic development.

Unesco: Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
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Date: Dec 20

New Palace

The New Palace is an 18th-century Baroque palace in Stuttgart and is one of the last large city palaces built in Southern Germany.The palace is located on the Schlossplatz in front of the Jubiläumssäule column and Königsbau. Public tours of the building are only permitted by special arrangement, as the building contains some government offices.

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Date: Dec 19

Freiburg Minster

Freiburg Minster is the cathedral of Freiburg im Breisgau, southwest Germany. Construction began in the late Romanesque style, but Gothic ideas prevailed. The architecture is characterized by wide flying buttresses and Gothic bays.With its lacy spires, cheeky gargoyles and intricate entrance portal, Freiburg’s 11th-century minster cuts an impressive figure above the central market square. It has dazzling kaleidoscopic stained-glass windows that were mostly financed by medieval guilds and a high altar with a masterful triptych. Square at the base, the tower becomes an octagon higher up and is crowned by a filigreed 116m-high spire.

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Date: Feb 17

Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a town on the Neckar River in southwestern Germany. It’s known for venerable Heidelberg University, founded in the 14th century. Gothic Heiliggeistkirche church towers over the cafe-lined Marktplatz, a town square in the Old Town. The red-sandstone ruins of Heidelberg Castle, a noted example of Renaissance architecture, stand on Königstuhl hill.

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Date: August 12

Rastatt

Rastatt is a town with a Baroque core, located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river in Baden-Württemberg. Rastatt and the surrounding area is home to a variety of historical buildings, includes palaces and castles such as Schloss Rastatt and Schloss Favorite. It lies in the vicinity of the Black Forest and the French border.

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Date: August 7

Unteruhldingen

Unteruhldingen is a small village, part of the town of Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, on the northwestern shore of Lake Constance, Germany. It is home to the Pfahlbauten, an open-air museum displaying reconstructions of Neolithic and Bronze Age pile dwellings. It's part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps UNESCO site. This serial property of 111 small individual sites encompasses the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling settlements in and around the Alps built from around 5000 to 500 B.C. on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands.

Unesco: Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps
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Date: June 18

Wilhelma

A koala from Wilhelma, a zoological-botanical garden in Stuttgart. Terra Australis, opened in July 2023, has 4 koalas: two male koalas Aero and Navi and two female koalas Scarborough and Auburn.

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Date: Jan 20

Insel Reichenau

The island of Reichenau on Lake Constance preserves the traces of the Benedictine monastery, founded in 724, which exercised remarkable spiritual, intellectual and artistic influence. The churches of St Mary and Marcus, St Peter and St Paul, and St George, mainly built between the 9th and 11th centuries, provide a panorama of early medieval monastic architecture in central Europe. Their wall paintings bear witness to impressive artistic activity.

Unesco: Monastic Island of Reichenau
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Date: March 5

Freudenstadt

Freudenstadt is famous far and wide for its Marktplatz square. The biggest in Germany and almost a perfect square in shape, it is lined with striking historical structures and pretty buildings with beautiful arcades that house dozens of small boutiques. The 50 water fountains create a lighthearted and upbeat ambiance and are the perfect place to cool off in summer. Another major attraction on the square is the Protestant town church, whose two naves meet at right angles.

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Date: Nov 28

Maulbronn Monastery

Founded in 1147, the Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps. Surrounded by fortified walls, the main buildings were constructed between the 12th and 16th centuries. The monastery's church, mainly in Transitional Gothic style, had a major influence in the spread of Gothic architecture over much of northern and central Europe. The water-management system at Maulbronn, with its elaborate network of drains, irrigation canals and reservoirs, is of exceptional interest.

Unesco: Maulbronn Monastery Complex
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Date: Oct 28

Wilhelma

Wilhelma is a zoological-botanical garden in Stuttgart on the grounds of a historic castle. Today, the zoo has an area of about 30 hectares, houses around 11,500 animals from around the world composed of roughly 1,200 species and roughly 6000 plants from all climates.

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Date: Aug 18