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City tour to Leipzig, from 145 € p.p.

Cultural tours to Leipzig:

"Experience contemporary history — more than 20 years of German Reunification"

"In the footsteps of great composers"

"In the footsteps of Johann Sebastian Bach" 

"In the footsteps of Robert Schumann"

"A tour through charming parks and gardens"

-> Why you should travel to Leipzig

-> Highlights

-> Travel ideas and excursions

-> Arriving

Why you should travel to Leipzig:

- famous musicians such as Bach, Telemann, Mendelssohn and Schumann are linked with Leipzig
- Europe's largest national monument, the Monument to the Battle of the Nations
- largest free-standing advent calendar of the world (at Leipzig Christmas Market)
- »cradle of the peaceful revolution« in 1989
- city centre with Old Town Hall, St. Thomas Church and St. Nicholas Church
- the world-renowned Auerbachs Keller restaurant (a scene from Goethe's »Faust«)
- historic centre with numerous market squares and unique arcades
- lovingly restored historic shopping arcades and architectural monuments
- old trade fair town 

Highlights in Leipzig:

Travel ideas and excursions: 

Music: Tours of the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bach Museum, Mendelssohn House, Schumann House, Grieg House, Grassi Museum of Musical Instruments; Concerts/Operas at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Leipzig Opera House, St. Thomas’s Church (feat. the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir), St. Nicholas’s Church, Schönefeld Church (where Robert and Clara Schumann were married)

Art: Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Spinnerei Galleries

Railway culture: Bayerischer Bahnhof Railway Museum, Leipzig-Lindenau Light Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum, the Deutsche Bahn Museum in Halle, Döllnitz Railroad from Oschatz to Mügeln

Castles, parks and gardens: German Allotment Gardener’s Museum, Botanical Gardens (incl. Apothecary’s Garden), Dessau Wörlitz Garden Realm (UNESCO-listed)

Industrial culture: BMW factory, Porsche factory, Tram Museum, Halloren Chocolate Factory in Halle (the oldest chocolate factory in Germany)

Historic sites: Monument to the Battle of the Nations, “Runde Ecke” Memorial Museum (incl. Stasi bunker), Museum of City History, St. Nicholas’s Church (starting point of the peaceful revolution in the GDR)

Christmas: Leipzig Christmas Market, incl. the world’s largest free-standing Advent calendar, the Christmas Oratorio in the St. Thomas’s Church

Excursions from Leipzig: Wittenberg, town of Martin Luther incl. castle and castle church (where Luther pinned his thesis to the door), the Town Church of St. Mary (mother church of the Reformation), the Cranach Buildings, the Melanchton House and the Hundertwasser School; Naumburg incl. Naumburg Cathedral with its world-famous founder figures; The Renaissance town of Torgau incl. Hartenfels Castle and Castle Church (ask us about organ concerts); the Katharina Luther Room and a brewery tour with beer tasting; Meissen incl. the Meissen Porcelain Factory, Albrechtsburg Castle and Cathedral; Colditz Castle; The Handel town of Halle with its Market Church, Handel House and Moritzburg Art Gallery; Bach town Köthen incl. Köthen Castle, Bach Museum and chapel; Weimar with Goethe, Schiller House and historic Anna-Amalia-Library

Arriving:

	Leipzig/Halle Airport, approx. 11 miles northeast of the city centre
	via the A9 (Berlin-Munich), A14 (Magdeburg-Dresden) and A38 (Göttingen-Leipzig) motorways
	long-distance connections to all large German and European cities, arrival into Leipzig main station (city centre)

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