German Cities and Regions

Munich has become 850 years old this year. Drei-Brücken-Fest ( Three Bridges Festival), Altstadtringfest (Old Town Ring Road Festival) – celebration after celebration during the summer, and much has been thought about it, remembered, discussed and many prices have been awarded. Undisturbed by this hustle and bustle, the city is as charming as ever.More ...

Pretty noble: the old Hanseatic City of Lübeck is not only well known for the production of exquisite marzipan. Two German Nobel Prize winners – Thomas Mann and Willy Brandt – saw the light of day here and a third, Günter Grass, has chosen Lübeck as his adopted town.More ...

Trier sets its own standards, and no other town in Germany comes close to matching up.More ...

Virtually no other city is as loaded with mythology as Weimar, and virtually no other city has such close associations with German cultural history as this little Thuringian town.More ...

To the more than four million tourists who visit it each year, Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, does not present the image of an immaculate and harmonious whole. Yet with its architectural disunity, the city on the Elbe conveys a deeply moving impression of its eventful history.More ...

With a population of almost 500,000 Leipzig is the fastest growing metropolis in the eastern German Federal Länder. It is in demand as a business location: Porsche and BMW are building new factories near the exhibition centres, Siemens is already there. More ...

60 years ago, on 20 November, the Nuremberg Trials against Nazi war criminals were held.More ...