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If you have a day to spend in Stuttgart, what are the must-see sights? %26quot;Day%26quot; means 08:00 - 17:00.
(I have tickets to a game in the evening on June 13th but want to make full use of my entire day in Stuttgart.) Any recommendation would be much appreciated!
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fifawm2006.stuttgart.de/index_fifa_ENG.htm
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Abalada,
Thanks for the link...However, what would be your personal recommendation? Give me your top 3 sights!
Sorry. I find it better to hear from actual people. Thanks again! or should I say %26quot;Danke%26quot;! :-)
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What I personally would visit in Stuttgart are the Schlossplatz, the Markthalle with the wonderful sights and smells of top quality food from around the world, the Staatsgallerie art museum, Wilhelma combination zoo-botanical gardens with its nice Moorish architecture, the Mercedes Benz museum (new museum opening in spring), and if interested in Porsches, their museum. A city tour through the tourist office (either walking or by bus) wouldn%26#39;t be bad either.
If you want to visit outside of Stuttgart using the local transportation network (S-bahn), the palace (Swabian Versailles) at Ludwigsburg and the old town part of Esslingen are excellent.
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Marcopolko,
Thanks for your response. How far are %26quot;the palace (Swabian Versailles) at Ludwigsburg and the old town part of Esslingen%26quot; by S-bahn? Can they be done in 4-5 hours? My hotel is at %26quot;Augsburger Str. 671-673%26quot; - I have no idea if it is a convenient location to get around Stuttgart or not? I%26#39;m so excited, we%26#39;ll find out on Friday who%26#39;s playing who on June 13 in Stuttgart...
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%26quot;Augsburger Str. 671-673%26quot;
This is close to the Obertürkheim station on the S-Bahn line S1.
http://www.vvs.de/download/71.pdf
Just 2 stops from Esslingen and 2 stops from Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion station.
esslingen-tourist.de/english/Sehenswert.htm
My top 3 for Stuttgart are
- Museum am Löwentor
naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stuttgart/index.html
Natural Science Museum (fossils, dinosaur)
Interesting. But esp. impressive the huge local content, i.e. from Stuttgart and surroundings.
- Wilhelma
Zoo and botanical garden.
http://www.wilhelma.de/
- Das LEUZE
www.stuttgart.de/baeder/kbb.php…
Nice combination of a mineral spa and fun bath. Stuttgart has the 2nd biggest mineral springs in Europe.
All 3 are next to each other.
The new Mercedes-Benz Museum which opens in May 2006 is next to the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadtion. And as more football fans are into cars than into fossils, animals/botanics, spas or old towns - I guess it will be very crowded there.
Try to make up an itinerary where you can reach the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadium from the Obertürkheim/Esslingen side. The trains from Stuttgart centre will be much more growded as 90% will reach the stadium from this side.
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First, abalada mentioned the paleontological museum, which is excellent, and which I enjoy being a geologist. The only problem there is I don%26#39;t believe there are any signs in English if that would be a problem, but the local fossils themselves are great coming from world-famous rocks close to Stuttgart.
As abalada also mentioned, your hotel is in or near the fairly remote Obertuerkheim part of Stuttgart near the Daimler Chrysler plant. Unfortunately, you%26#39;ll be only near one S-bahn line (S-1) (trains every half hour, every 15 minutes at rush hour) and no U-bahns. Esslingen will only be a few stops at most in the direction away from Stuttgart. The simplest way to get to Ludwigsburg is to just take the S-1 to the Hauptbahnhof, and there catch the S-4 or S-5 to Ludwigsburg. The palace is at least a kilometer from the Ludwigsburg train station. An alternative for returning is to walk through the park containing a deer herd and the small palace %26quot;Favorite%26quot; and the other small palace on the water %26quot;Mons Repo%26quot; (spelling?) and then return to Stuttgart on the S-4 at the Favoritepark S-bahn station.
In your 4-5 hours you could easily see the old part of Esslingen, but for the same time frame you might have to cut your Ludwigsburg visit slightly short. There you can visit the rooms that have public access on a tour, and also visit the four museums (the porcellan museum is nice) contained within it. They also still manufacture Ludwigsburg porcellan there. The gardens also have a section depicting children%26#39;s fairy tales.
Near your hotel is a wine museum in Uhlback amid the vineyards, and also the hilltop grave chapel (with excellent views) of one of Wuerttemberg%26#39;s rulers which he built for his wife, a daughter of the Russian Czar, on the site of the family%26#39;s former castle. Both are accessible by bus.
The problem is that you have far too little time. You can easily spend an interresting week or two in and around Stuttgart.
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Many thanks to all for your tips on Stuttgart. One question: what would be a good place to hang out in Stuttgart after a soccer game? (We%26#39;re NOT into wild, rowdy party scenes. We are a Canadian couple in our 30s looking for a fun and safe place for a drink, people watching etc. after the game).
I really look forward for our first visit to your wonderful city of Stuttgart and the country of Germany.
I%26#39;m glad we%26#39;ll get to see France vs. Switzerland on June 13th. This is a lot better than a Mexico-Iran match-up!!
Other cities I will be visiting next summer are Dortmund (2 days) and Munich (4 days). Any travel tips on those cities would be appreciated too.
Best regards.
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For the Swiss and French fans Stuttgart is of course the best location as it is really close to both countries. Less than 2 hours from their borders.
And the Stuttgart conurbation is with 2,65 mio. inhabitants the 3rd biggest in Germany.
Short: it will be very very crowded
…stuttgart.de/ENG/events/public-viewing.htm
Many fans will head from the stadium back to the inner city. The stadium is between the Wasen festgrounds (for the Stuttgart %26quot;Oktoberfest%26quot;, but at other times used for parking), the Mercedes-Benz factory and a residential area. So no reason to stay after the match near the stadium.
I don%26#39;t think that it will work to give any tips from %26quot;normal%26quot; experience. We don%26#39;t know if a place will be open at all at these days or what special program they will offer on these days. And if you have any chance to get in at all. E.g. if the place is already occupied by fans without tickets.
I guess the Stuttgarters will transfer the Königsstrasse and Schlossplatz in one big bar and party mile.
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I%26#39;m trying to find some accommodation near Kaiserslautern during the World Cup, but there seems to be very few hotels there. Can anyone help?
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