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Of course, Cologne Cathedral and Neuschwanstein Castle should not be missing from a Germany travel guide. But the new “Lonely Planet” guide “Ultimate Travel Destinations” presents something else as a top destination.
Leipzig – Saxony’s largest city Leipzig is presented as a top German destination in the new book “Ultimate Travel Destinations Germany – Lonely Planet’s Top 250 List”.
“The hype that some people attest to the city is not at all: Leipzig is really cooler than Berlin and more popular than Munich, especially among millennials,” says the travel guide. “The city is young, exciting, multi-faceted, sometimes colorful, sometimes gray, with a vibrant liveliness.” Lake Constance follows in second place among the top destinations and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in third place.
“Everyone wants to go to the city of the first GDR Monday demos, the home of Auerbachs Keller (Goethe and Faust, you know), the city of street art, the Wave-Gotik-Treffen and a creative scene all about cotton spinning, the is looking for its own kind ”, the authors also write about Leipzig.
People in Leipzig are very happy about the placement: “We couldn’t ask for a better recommendation,” said the managing director of Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH, Volker Bremer, on Monday when asked by the dpa. “This tip is particularly valuable from a tourist point of view, as the publisher is the world’s largest publisher of independent travel and language guides. The travel guides are always carefully researched and appear in almost every country in the world, ”continues Bremer.
The highly praised destination (book quote: “Touri program between Thomaskirche, Mädler-Passage, Altem Rathaus and Völkerschlachtdenkmal”) is Germany’s eighth largest city – after the four million metropolises Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne as well as the cities of Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. Behind Leipzig are Dortmund and Essen, followed by Bremen and Dresden.
The “Lonely Planet” authors write about their second place, Lake Constance: “It is the combination of its advantages that put the“ Swabian Sea ”ahead. The many beautiful places on its banks: Lindau, Meersburg, Überlingen or Konstanz and a few more, often surrounded by lush orchards. “
“Like a frozen wave”
And about third place, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, which has been an irresistible visitor magnet since 2017, it says: “This glass work of art, which swings like a frozen wave into the sky above the Hamburg harbor, is no longer from the skyline of the Hanseatic city But it is also noted that “for a long time it looked as if the Elbphilharmonie project would end in disaster: ten instead of three years of construction and a tenfold increase in construction costs”. But now it is fantastic to look at.