Heidelberg
Heidelberg — Castle Illumination, Roman Ladenburg, Baroque Architecture, Odenwald Hiking & Bergstrasse Wine
Heidelberg by night glows amber from the castle floodlights; the Schlossbeleuchtung fireworks simulate its 1693 destruction. The Roman town of Ladenburg, the Odenwald forest, and the Bergstrasse wine route complete the Heidelberg day-trip panorama.
Heidelberg — Neckar Cruise, Mannheim Baroque Palace, Worms Cathedral & Speyer's Romanesque Kaiserdom
The Neckar cruise from Heidelberg to Neckargemünd gives the best castle view in Germany. Day trips reach the Baroque grid city of Mannheim, the Romanesque cathedrals of Worms and Speyer, and the most important Reformation monument in the world.
Heidelberg — Philosophenweg, Wine Country, Museums, Student Culture & Nightlife
Heidelberg's Romanticism extends to the cherry-blossom Philosophenweg, the wine villages of the Neckar valley, the 600,000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis jaw at the Kurpfälzisches Museum, and the most compact student pub culture in any German university city.
Heidelberg — Königstuhl Summit, Handschuhsheim Village, the Electoral Palatinate & Heidelberg in Literature
The Königstuhl rack railway delivers the most panoramic city summit in Germany; the medieval village of Handschuhsheim is within the city limits; the Electoral Palatinate's Heidelberg Catechism shaped Dutch Calvinism; and the German Romantic poets made Heidelberg world literature.
Heidelberg — Churches, Schwetzingen Garden, Christmas Market, Art Scene & the Full Events Calendar
The Heiliggeistkirche held the most contested Reformation history of any German church; Schwetzingen has Europe's most thematically diverse Baroque garden with a mosque folly; and Heidelberg's events calendar runs from the Spring Music Festival to the most castle-scenographic Christmas market in Germany.
Heidelberg — Castle, Altstadt, Old Bridge, Germany's Oldest University & the Neckar Valley
Heidelberg is Germany's most romantically beautiful city — the Renaissance castle ruin, the intact Baroque Altstadt, the oldest university in Germany, and the Neckar Valley create the most complete German Romantic experience.