15 Best Things to Do in Cochem (Germany)
There may not be a lovelier scene in Germany than the town of Cochem, couched in the high, vine-clad slopes of the Moselle Valley. The town of half-timbered houses, scurrying …
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15 Best Things to Do in Düren (Germany)
A northern outpost of the Eifel region, Düren is an industrial city between Aachen and Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. From the 16th century up to the 1980s Düren was Germany’s …
15 Best Things to Do in Wilhelmshaven (Germany)
Germany’s first naval port is tucked into the western lip of the Jade Bight, a natural harbour on the North Sea. Wilhelmshaven was founded by Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1869 …
15 Best Things to Do in Ratingen (Germany)
On Düsseldorf’s northeast shoulder, Ratingen is a well-off city where many international computer brands and high-tech manufacturers have their HQs. Ratingen’s innovative flair goes back at least as far as …
15 Best Things to Do in Marl (Germany)
One of the last mining cities in Germany, Marl is at the very north of the Ruhrgebiet in North Rhine-Westphalia. As Marl is in a conurbation you have quick connections …
15 Best Things to Do in Ludwigsburg (Germany)
At the start of the 18th century Duke Eberhard Louis of Württemberg built an “Ideal City” up the Neckar River from Stuttgart to cement his absolute power. A Baroque urban …
15 Best Things to Do in Jena (Germany)
Bulwarked by low mountains this Thuringian City is the home of one of Germany’s ten oldest universities. So it follows that many eminent literary figures, thinkers and scientists have lived …
15 Best Things to Do in Hanau (Germany)
The city of Hanau in Hesse has the moniker, “Brüder-Grimm-Stadt” (Brothers Grimm City). Literature’s favourite sibling collaboration was born in Hanau in 1785 and 1786, and there’s a national memorial …
15 Best Things to Do in Flensburg (Germany)
At the innermost pocket of Schleswig-Holstein’s Flensburg Fjord in, is a Baltic Sea port soaked in maritime culture and with 800 years of stories to tell. The quay on the …
15 Best Things to Do in Minden (Germany)
Inland navigation has always been crucial to the city of Minden, in the very northeast of North Rhine Westphalia. In Medieval times Minden needed the Weser River for fishing and …