When it comes to the best travel destinations in Germany, many think of Bavarian idyllic nature or the Baltic and North Sea. And of course to cities like Cologne, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. In the new “Lonely Planet” book, however, Leipzig is declared to be Germany’s top travel destination.
Saxony’s largest city has long ceased to be an insider tip, but rather a young, colorful and dynamic metropolis. Leipzig has now secured first place among the top travel destinations in Germany in the new book “Ultimate Travel Destinations Germany – Lonely Planet’s Top 250 List”.
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First place: Leipzig
Leipzig is cooler than the capital, according to the new “Lonely Planet book”. The green culture and trade fair city is young, exciting and multi-faceted: “The hype that some attest to the city is not at all: Leipzig is really cooler than Berlin and more popular than Munich, especially among millennials,” says the current one Travel Guide.
“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, that is second to none, ”the authors also write about Leipzig.
The highly praised travel destination Leipzig (quote from the book: “Touri program between Thomaskirche, Mädler-Passage, Altem Rathaus and Völkerschlachtdenkmal”) is by the way the eighth largest city in Germany – after the four million metropolises Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne as well as the cities of Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Dusseldorf. After Leipzig are Dortmund and Essen, followed by Bremen and Dresden.
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Second place: Lake Constance
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. “
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Third place: The Hamburg Elbphilharmonie
Regarding third place, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, which has been an irresistible visitor magnet since 2017, it is said: “This glass work of art, which swings like a frozen wave in the sky above the Hamburg harbor, has become an indispensable part of the Hanseatic city’s skyline . ”However, 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.
The other placements
After Leipzig, Lake Constance and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie in fourth place among the ultimate travel destinations in Germany in the new “Lonely Planet book”, the Wadden Sea follows (“A trio of national parks protects this water landscape, which, together with the Dutch part, covers almost 12,000 square kilometers and is in of this size is unique in the world ”) and in fifth place the Klimahaus Bremerhaven exhibition building (“ It makes it possible to experience how diverse the habitats of our planet are ”).
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Behind it are the picturesque Eltz Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany’s highest peak, the Zugspitze near Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria), the Berlin Museum Island, the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony and the pretty Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt.
On almost 300 pages, 240 more sights follow in the book, including of course Neuschwanstein Castle, Baden-Baden, Potsdam, Weimar, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Aachen, Cologne and Naumburg Cathedral, Ulm Minster, Bauhaus Dessau, the chalk cliffs of Rügen, Heligoland, the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt and the tropical amusement park Tropical Islands.
With material from dpa
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