Feel the City

Start your great journey!

Just a few hundret meters away from us at the Castle Place the Stuttgart Tour departs. Two buslines take you to Stuttgart's sights which are not close to our hotel - e.g. the "Weissenhofsiedlung", the Mercedes-Benz Museum or the Chinese Garden.

Audio guides provide information in German, English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Chinese... and in Swabian of course!

English Flyer Stuttgart Tour
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The Stuttgart Christmas Market is one of the most beautiful and eldest christmas markets in Europe. It was first documented in 1692, but it's beginnings are estimated to be in the early 16th century. At the end of the 18th century the former cattle market became a carnival with tightrope dancers, magicians and jugglers.

Nowadays the Stuttgart Christmas Market welcomes between three and four million visitors every year. About 280 ventures (there are more than 1,500 applications for stands every year) care for the christmas mood on Castle Place, Schiller Place, Karls Place and the Market Place.

Homepage Stuttgart Christmas Market
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The Swabians' national dish always will be the wine. It's consumption in Baden-Württemberg is one and a half times as high as in the other parts of the Federal Republic. The young duke Ulrich became very popular with his people then, when he filled the fountain at the Castle Place with wine instead of the water to celebrate his wedding.

Nowadays you certainly can only get the wine at the 120 restaurateurs' vine bowers, but now you can choose 200 different varieties, accompanied by typical Swabian delicacies, such as Pasta Squares or Bubenspitzle. The Vine Village opened it's gates for the first time in 1976 and became a traditional festivity attracting more then 100,000 visitors per year on the twelve days at the end of August and beginning of September.

Homepage Stuttgart Vine Village
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Get to know Stuttgart and its surroundings in an unusual way!

Board a Neckar-Käpt'n ship vis-à-vis to the Wilhelma and experience the idyllic vineyards. On a distance of 80 kilometers between Plochingen and Heilbronn the ships stop at Stuttgart harbour, Ludwigsburg or Marbach, Friedrich Schiller's birthplace. More than 100.000 passengers per annum take the chance to get to now the beautiful Neckar valley this way.

Homepage Neckar Käpt'n