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Take a break from the city life at Schlossplatz Pavillon
all, really – the whole structure is like a modernist symphony in glass. As for the exhibits, they take you on a captivating drive through time, from the dawn of the automobile in 1886 – when the first cars were essentially carts and carriages with rudimentary engines – to the sleekest modern vehicles among Mercedes’ SL range of sports models. You don’t need to be a petrolhead to find this place riveting. Any visitor would be revved-up.
No trip to Stuttgart is complete without an exploration of its food and wine. The city is close to some of the best vineyards in the country. First, take in the views – photogenic expanses braided with glistening vines – as you stand by the Grabkapelle (Sepulchral Chapel). This is a poignant place, built on the orders of King Wilhelm I between 1820 and 1824 for his beloved wife, Queen Katharina, who died aged just 30.
From the chapel, take a ramble among those lovely vineyards, especially Uhlbach and Rotenberg. Try the former, beside the Neckar River, for delicious rieslings and gewürztraminer, and the latter for refreshing weissburgunder, aka white burgundy. Enjoy your local vintage with meaty dumplings known as maultaschen, pasta-like spaetzle egg noodles, and zwiebelrostbraten – roast beef topped with sizzling onions.
t is a memory that may still be etched on the
Queen’s mind: arriving in the southern German
city of Stuttgart on May 24, 1965, to be greeted by 500,000 people waving Union Jacks. She might also recall the baroque grandeur of the Neues Schloss (New Palace), where a lavish welcome banquet took place. Similarly memorable would be the Stuttgart TV Tower. Built in 1956, and soaring more than 200 metres into the air, it was a blueprint for future TV towers around the world. At the top of the tower, the Queen signed the Golden Book of the City – Stuttgart’s official visitors’ book – and gazed out over the glorious capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
For your own visit to Stuttgart, follow the Queen’s footsteps to Neues Schloss and the Schlossplatz, or Palace Square, which began life in the 18th century as part of a pleasure garden for German nobility. Neues Schloss was the home of state royals over the centuries. Begun in 1746, the palace is a masterpiece of architectural styles that reflect the decades it took to complete – you’ll see examples of baroque, classicism, rococo and empire.
From antique to avant-garde … Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz Museum, its design resembling an enormous double helix. There are no straight walls within – no conventional walls at
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t is a memory that may still be etched on the Queen’s
mind: arriving in the southern German city of Stuttgart on
May 24, 1965, to be greeted by 500,000 people waving Union Jacks. She might also recall the baroque grandeur of the Neues Schloss (New Palace), where a lavish welcome banquet took place. Similarly memorable would be the Stuttgart TV Tower. Built in 1956, and soaring more than 200 metres into the air, it was a blueprint for future TV towers around the world. At the top of the tower, the Queen signed the Golden Book of the City – Stuttgart’s official visitors’ book – and gazed out over the glorious capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
For your own visit to Stuttgart, follow the Queen’s footsteps to Neues Schloss and the Schlossplatz, or Palace Square, which began life in the 18th century as part of a pleasure garden for German nobility. Neues Schloss was the home of state royals over the centuries. Begun in 1746, the palace is a masterpiece of architectural styles that reflect the decades it took to complete – you’ll see examples of baroque, classicism, rococo and empire.
From antique to avant-garde … Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz Museum, its design resembling an enormous double helix. There are no straight walls within – no conventional walls at all, really – the whole structure is like a modernist symphony in glass. As for the exhibits, they take you on a captivating drive through time, from the dawn of the automobile in 1886 – when the first cars were essentially carts and carriages with rudimentary engines – to the sleekest modern vehicles among Mercedes’ SL range of sports models. You don’t need to be a petrolhead to find this place riveting. Any visitor would be revved-up.
No trip to Stuttgart is complete without an exploration of its food and wine. The city is close to some of the best vineyards in the country. First, take in the views – photogenic expanses braided with glistening vines – as you stand by the Grabkapelle (Sepulchral Chapel). This is a poignant place, built on the orders of King Wilhelm I between 1820 and 1824 for his beloved wife, Queen Katharina, who died aged just 30.
From the chapel, take a ramble among those lovely vineyards, especially Uhlbach and Rotenberg. Try the former, beside the Neckar River, for delicious rieslings and gewürztraminer, and the latter for refreshing weissburgunder, aka white burgundy. Enjoy your local vintage with meaty dumplings known as maultaschen, pasta-like spaetzle egg noodles, and zwiebelrostbraten – roast beef topped with sizzling onions.
