Germany Travel Guide

Germany is filled with a strong sense of cultural heritage, where men still don lederhosen and women dirndls. There is beer by the stein under the shade of old chestnut trees. No matter what part of the country you visit, there are thick layers of history: from Roman relics to medieval castles and from Baroque palaces to communist-era apartment blocks. But, for all the tradition, Germany is a modern country. It's a leader in avant-garde fashion, culture, and art, reflected in its many museums and the vibrant Berlin art scene.

Experience Germany

• Top Attractions
• Quintessential
• If You Like
• Germany Today
• Top Experiences
• Flavors of Germany

• Beers of Germany
• Wines of Germany
• Lodging Primer
• Tracing Your German Roots
• World War II Sites

Regions in Germany

• The Bavarian Alps
• The Black Forest
• The Bodensee
• The Fairy-Tale Road
• Franconia and the German Danube
• Heidelberg and the Neckar Valley

• The Pfalz and Rhine Terrace
• The Rhineland
• The Romantic Road
• Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
• Schleswig-Holstein and the Baltic Coast

Cities in Germany

• Aachen
• Alken
• Alpirsbach
• Augsburg
• Bacharach
• Bad Bergzabern
• Bad Doberan
• Bad Dürkheim
• Bad Karlshafen
• Bad Mergentheim
• Bad Reichenhall
• Bad Tölz
• Bad Wimpfen
• Baden-Baden
• Baiersbronn
• Bamberg
• Bautzen/Budysin
• Bayreuth
• Bebenhausen
• Berchtesgaden
• Bergen-Belsen
• Berlin
• Bernkastel-Kues
• Bingen
• Bodenwerder
• Bonn
• Boppard
• Bremen
• Bremerhaven
• Brühl
• Calw
• Chiemsee
• Coburg
• Cochem
• Cologne
• Creglingen
• Deidesheim
• Dessau
• Dhrontal
• Dinkelsbühl
• Dresden
• Düsseldorf
• Ediger-Eller
• Eisenach
• Eltville
• Erfurt
• Ettal
• Frankfurt

• Freiburg
• Freudenstadt
• Freyburg
• Friedrichshafen
• Fulda
• Füssen
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• Gelnhausen
• Gleiszellen
• Görlitz
• Goslar
• Göttingen
• Gutach
• Halle
• Hamburg
• Hameln
• Hanau
• Hannover
• Hannoversch-Münden
• Heidelberg
• Hirschhorn
• Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein
• Höxter
• Husum
• Kaiserstuhl
• Karlsruhe
• Kassel
• Kiel
• Koblenz
• Königswinter
• Konstanz
• Kronach
• Kulmbach
• Leipzig
• Lindau
• Lübeck
• Lutherstadt-Wittenberg
• Mainau
• Mainz
• Marburg
• Meersburg
• Meissen
• Mittenwald
• Munich
• Nackenheim
• Naumburg
• Neckargemünd
• Neckarzimmern

• Neustadt
• Nierstein
• Nördlingen
• Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
• Oberammergau
• Oberwesel
• Oestrich-Winkel
• Oppenheim
• Passau
• Pforzheim
• Quedlinburg
• Ravensburg
• Regensburg
• Reichenau
• Rostock
• Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber
• Rüdesheim
• Rust
• Sababurg
• Schleswig
• Schweigen-Rechtenbach
• Schwerin
• Speyer
• St. Goar
• St. Goarshausen
• St. Martin
• Staufen
• Steinau an der Strasse
• Stralsund
• Stuttgart
• Sylt
• Tegernsee
• Titisee
• Traben-Trarbach
• Triberg
• Trier
• Tübingen
• Überlingen
• Ulm
• Warnemünde
• Weimar
• Weingarten
• Wiesbaden
• Winningen
• Wismar
• Worms
• Würzburg

Islands in Germany

• Rügen Island

• Usedom Island

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