15 Best Things to Do in Trier (Germany)
Born by the Moselle River as Augustus Treverorum back in 16 BC, Germany’s oldest city has managed to keep hold of its Roman past. Trier has a city-wide UNESCO World …
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15 Best Things to Do in Erlangen (Germany)
Just 15 kilometres north of Nuremberg in Middle Franconian you’ll find the city of Erlangen. This city’s story really begins in the 1680s when the Edict of Nantes was evoked, …
15 Best Things to Do in Saarbrücken (Germany)
A hair’s breadth from the French border in Southwestern Germany, Saarbrücken mixes industrial history with the splendour of the Counts and Princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken who ruled the region for centuries. …
15 Best Things to Do in Mönchengladbach (Germany)
In North Rhine Westphalia, Mönchengladbach is a city made up of a group of boroughs around the historic towns of Gladbach and Rheydt. The thing that unites these settlements is …
15 Best Things to Do in Zwickau (Germany)
The Saxon city of Zwickau sometimes goes by the moniker “Automobil- und Robert-Schumann-Stadt” (City of Cars and Robert Schumann). And while not exactly concise, the name sums up two of …
15 Best Things to Do in Regensburg (Germany)
Anyone charmed by medieval history will be in dreamland in the UNESCO city of Regensburg, where 1,500 listed monuments have stood the test of centuries. In the days of the …
15 Best Things to Do in Leverkusen (Germany)
On the right bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, Leverkusen has only existed as an urban centre since 1975 when a group of towns and districts in the …
15 Best Things to Do in Osnabrück (Germany)
In 1648 Osnabrück helped bring the curtain down on the Thirty Years’ War when the Peace of Westphalia was signed between Sweden and the Habsburgs. Even now this city in …
15 Best Things to Do in Ludwigshafen (Germany)
Before 1844, Ludwigshafen wasn’t much more than swamps, a fortress and an assortment of villages on the left bank of the Rhine. But industrialisation and the rise of chemical manufacturers …
15 Best Things to Do in Oldenburg (Germany)
An former royal seat in Lower Saxony, Oldenburg has a legacy left by generations of counts, dukes and grand dukes. Studying Oldenburg’s aristocratic history can be tricky as the House …