Although Stuttgart, the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, is widely known as a leading shopping center and the house of two big car producers, is also one of the most attractive cities in Germany for tourists.A pair of remarkable art museums, two state -of -the -art car museums, one of the top zoos, sumptuous palaces and one of the largest Christmas markets in Germany attract visitors throughout the year.Architectural landmarks represent baroque, art nouveau, modernist and contemporary styles.
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The best months for good weather in Stuttgart are May, June, July, August and September
The rainy Mondays are May and June
Tourist Attractions
The dynamic architecture of the meiss -designed delug for the Porsche Museum, supported on a trio of V -shaped columns, is meant to show the nature of the brand itself.Inside, you can track the development of Porsche vehicles through exhibits and vehicles of over 80 displayed.English audio guides highlight themes, such as the "Porsche DNA" that lives in each model from the beginning. In the most popular part of the museum, even for those with little interest for cars and races, it is interactive Porsche Touchwall, where you can use tactile frames to browse over 3,000 drawings, photographsHistorical. In the Porsche Interactive Sound In the Mix, you can play sounds of the different models over the world and brakes over the years and you can mix them in an original musical piece.Once you have composed your own Porsche music piece, you can send it by email.
From a look at the Stuttgart State Gallery, you know it's not another tired museum.The opening of the new 1984 building, designed by James Stirling and itself a masterpiece of contemporary architecture, marked the transformation of the museum into one of the best art collections in Europe - and one of the most visited museums in Germany.XIV-XIX, Staatsgalerie is especially known for its remarkable 201-century paintings collection.With a special emphasis on the classic modern period from 1900 to 1980, collections include significant works by Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Max Beckmann, Salvador Dalí, Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso, among others.
Certainly, one of the most unusual things to do in Stuttgart - or in any German city - is a visit to the Pig Museum.If there is any art form that describes a pig, you will find it here, from finely worked sculptures and masterful pastoral paintings to China portions and a pink pork princess in a tulle tower.An entire room is dedicated to the rifles, the other one filled toys and a attic -like room is dedicated to larger pieces of art.Exhibits with signs in English and German explore everything, from the history and science of pigs to mythology.The Guinness World Record Book included it as "the largest pig museum in the world" and, after seeing it, you will not doubt it.The museum is a little outside the center, but easy to access with the U-9 tram or bus # 56.
Expansiva Schlossplatz is the central point of the city.Surrounded by buildings dating from the Stuttgart past as a Duchy and Royal Capital, this vast open space is well used.His green beans and banks are popular places to catch a little sun, and his gardens are pleasant places to walk in good weather.In November, the market becomes a Christmas market for children, with a miniature village, holiday walks and a ice rink.And here you will find a cast iron (1871);a fountain;and modern sculpture pieces by Calder, Hrdlicka and Hajek.Built in a late Baroque style and completed in 1807, the palace - once hosting the former kings - is now used by the state government. Informing the opposite side is Königstrasse Pietonal Street, 1200 meters long, one of the longest and best commercial districts in Germany.It ends at the Masiva Hauptbahnhof, the main station of the city and, until the current renovations, a landmark of early German modernism
Located at a picturesque point of view, a few kilometers outside the center of Stuttgart, Schloss Solitude (Solitude Palace) was built for Duke Karl Eugen in 1763 as a summer hunt and residence.Designed in the late Rococo style and in the early neoclassical style, the most sumptuous rooms are in the central pavilion.Its highlight is the bright Weisse Saal (White Hall), with its wonderful dome roof, complicated golden work and fresco ceiling.Solitude and the Palace of Ludwigsburg.
The flank of the Old Palace is Schillerplatz, a market of the old city, with a monument of Friedrich Schiller, poet, philosopher, historian and playwright - one of the most renowned cultural giants in Germany.The market is the place of a flower market on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning, and in December Schlossplatz and Marktplatz joined, on both sides of Schillerplatz, as the headquarters of the Christmas market.A side of the market consists of other Kanzlei (old Chancellery), and on the southwest side is the old Fruchtkasten (grain) dating from 1390 and joined, the Stiftskirche.Established in the 12th century on the site of an older X-century older church, Stiftskirche was rebuilt in the late Gothic style and rebuilt in 1958 after great damage to World War II.The landmarks include a magnificent series of Renaissance figures from the sixteenth century of Württemberg counts, as well as the funeral vaults of the seventeenth century
Germany is known for its Christmas markets, and one of the largest and best is in Stuttgart, with over 280 sellers established in rustic logs that fill Marktplatz and Schillerplatz and lining the streets and markets between them.Each cabin is decorated with eternally green branches and sparkling lights, and their roofs are covered with scenes and reasons elaborated by holidays - there is a lively competition for the prize as the best of each year.Knitted socks, fades and decorations of all kinds for holidays.The food is everywhere: tearing sausages, spicy cooks, marzipan, chocolate and fried chestnuts.I can travel with a miniature train through a puppet city, they can make ice skates or they can make their own Christmas gifts and cakes at the stands for children.Special events seem to happen all the time - a colored costume band goes by, and the old courtyard of the castle sounds with a coral concert.The market opens at the end of November and continues by December 23
Originally seated in 1939 as part of a major horticultural show, Killesberg Park is an open space of 123 acres, which gives visitors more to do.Many of its structures date from the opening and are still used for flower and events shows, but the latest attraction is the unusual Killesberg Tower.This 40 -meter high cone -shaped observation tower is made of metal stairs that spirals up on steel cables.Its outdoor construction can be a little disturbing, as well as the slight swaying sensation on the top of the observation platforms. In a closer experience to the ground, visit the park on the narrow Killesberg railway;Both diesel and steam locomotives pull the cars in the ground - the departures are common, so you can wait for a steam run.If you visit Stuttgart in July, make sure you visit Lichterfest Stuttgart, a festival during which thousands of lanterns decorate the park.
North of Stuttgart, in the small city of Ludwigsburg, is the vast and luxurious Ludwigsburg Palace, one of the largest and most beautiful baroque palaces in Germany.In decorating his private apartments here, Duke Carl Eugen from Württemberg did not exempt any expense, incursing the great fresco painter Matthaus günther to decorate the walls and to even paper the stripes with manually painted wall coatings.against the blue, which gives the impression of the open sky.The oldest canned palace theater in Europe, a gallery confection built in 1757, still has its original stage cars, with a collection of rare decorations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The Museum of the Theater presents some of the ingenious mechanisms to move them and to create the illusions of the thunder, the rain and the wind.Ludwigsburg offers a number of things to see and do: in addition to visiting the apartments and theater museum, there are magnificent gardens to explore and the beautiful baroque Marktplatz.In December, this is the scene of a baroque Christmas market, and in the autumn, the palace land houses a popular pumpkin festival.
The first television tower in the world would be interesting enough, but Fernsehturm Stuttgart, with a height of 217 meters, has the additional attraction of an observation bridge and a restaurant, with comprehensive views that reach the city and the Neckar Valley in the rural area, to the Black Forest and Odenwald.Prototype for such distance structures from Johannesburg and Wuhan, China.The Stuttgart engineer, Fritz Leonhardt, proposed the innovative concrete construction, with the suggestion that it could become a tourist attraction, as well as a transmission tower, quickly becoming one of the most visited places in the city.To get here, take the U-7, U-8 or U-15 subway line or bus # 70 to Ruhbank station.No matter how remarkable the views are, it is a challenging experience of thinking, knowing that you are on the desert of a war -devastated city, while looking at the new one who came out of the ashes.
Above the northern part of Stuttgart, near the Academy of Fine Arts, Weissenhof Estate (Weißenhofediesdlung) is a development of pioneer and influential housing built in 1927 for an exhibition by Werkbund.This group of renowned international architects, including Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, threw the flowing decorative forms of the Art Nouveau movement and became leaders of the modernists embracing functional models of geometric constructions, with little or not at all.Construction, with steel frames and prefabricated elements.Eleven of the 21 original buildings of the project survive and you can see them and find out about them at the Weissenhof Museum, located in one of the Le Corbusier buildings.
Stuttgart can follow his long love affair with the car until 1887, when Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach set up the store here.The Mercedes-Benz Museum celebrates the fact that over 130 years of car history in over 1500 exhibits that cover nine floors and place the invention and development of the car in the context of the technology of each era, daily life and society.Among the cars are the first motorcycle in the world - a Daimler - from 1885, which has almost no resemblance to today, except that it has two big wheels (it has two smaller ones, which resembles the training wheels for children!) You do not have to be crazy with the cars to have fun here, but for the lovers, there are two lovers.
The bold design of the large glass cube of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart contrasts strongly with the palaces and other buildings with views at Schlossplatz.But the exterior of glass and interior white limestone walls are a suitable house for a remarkable collection of contemporary and modern art.The weak, clean lines;open spaces;and the subtle indirect lighting of the exhibition galleries highlights the bold images and the striking colors of the modernist works exposed in the 5,000 square meters of exhibition space.Dix.His satirical paintings depict the high German society from the post-first World War, and the interpretive signal identifies the real topics, which include celebrities from the 1920s. Special exhibits highlight special movements and artists, such as Swabian impressions.
Located on Württemberg, overlooking Stuttgart and Neckar Valley, is Grabkapelle, the funeral chapel of Queen Katharina, erected by King Wilhelm and as a monument of his beloved wife after his premature death in 1819. Built between 1820 and 1824, this beautiful structure consists of a neoclassical style in a neclasic style inspired by a neclasic style inspired by a neclasic style inspired by a neclasic style inspired by a neclasic style inspired by neo-The pantheon in Rome (is also the place where Wilhelm himself is buried).It is considered the most romantic place in Stuttgart, partly due to its beautiful decoration, but especially because of Wilhelm's inion over the chapel, "love never dies", in memory of his lost queen.
Today, one of the largest zoos in Germany, with over two million annual visitors, the Wilhelma zoo and botanical garden was created as a private royal refuge for King Wilhelm I. Royalty in the middle of the 19th century and placed among the gardens in a large and green park.Botanical to be so remarkable is the way in which fanciful historical buildings have been restored as decoration for animals and plants - and the way these two were integrated.For example, Villa Maură now hosts a combined house of animals and plants, and a flag that was once the king's point of view over the Neckar River is now the main entrance.The Belvedere Pavilion above the terraces under the tropics and the Damascene Hall are still in use, as is the covered leaf lined with decorative terracotta.Each of these, as well as the 8,500 varieties of plants, are presented in a certain house or enclosure that represents its geography or its native environment.These include the house for prey animals, the Tropics House, the South American enclosure and the house for tree ferns.Although one of the most popular things to do in Stuttgart with children, this park and the zoo is attractive to all ages
Only about 17 kilometers east of Stuttgart, the city of Esslingen feels centuries away.His position at the point where the ancient commercial routes crossed the Neckar river was strengthened by the construction of two bridges at the beginning of the medi era and became an important commercial center, protected by a castle on the hill, whose trains and towers you can explore for wonderful views.of the old city and Neckar below. In the old center, you will feel as if you have hindered in the Middle Ages, walking along the street after the street lined with half wooden buildings.More than 200 of these remain, dating from 13 to 16 - centuries.Other attractions are St. Dionis Church, with the unusual bridge between its tall towers and the wonderful Red City Hall with Glockenspiel, a clock in which they act on moving figures
It is a long climb on Eugenstaffel, the wide scale that starts near the Museum of State Art and leads to the wonderful park and the picturesque views of Eugensplatz.Or you can save the climb by taking the bus no.42 Alexanderstrasse from Charlottenplatz.Below are the large birds that lead down through a greenery hill and over the center of a steps that sprinkle through the park. N at the top is a statue of Galatea, a figure from Greek mythology, dating from 1890.Pinguin cremary even opposite
With a side of Schlossplatz is the alouds Schloss massif or the old castle.There is no trace of its origins from the tenth century;The existing building, with its beautiful courtyard surrounded by multiple arches, was built between 1553-78.The impressive structure now hosts the Württemberg Landesmuseum, with its fascinating collections of medi art, musical instruments, watches and watches, as well as the magnificent crowns and royal jewelry in Württemberg.Swabians, including the oldest human art works in the world.Later, Celtic, Roman and medi pieces include rich serious weapons and jewelry discoveries.The modern glass collection is among the best in Europe, and a superb collection of costumes and textiles focuses on the European Decorative fabrics and textiles from the eighteenth century from the Art Nouveau period.In the southern wing is the church of the 16th century palace, with graves of former famous residents and royalty.
