Attractions & Sights in Stuttgart

Stuttgart is a city located in Germany’s Southwest. As the state capital of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart is not only an industrial city with world famous automobile companies and state-of-the-art science and research facilities. Moreover Stuttgart is appealing because of its cultural facilitie, its landscape with numerous vineyards that stretch all the way to the city centre and the many parks that make Stuttgart one of the greenest cities in Germany.

We recommend the following sights and attractions:

Art Museum Stuttgart
Placed in the heart of the city of Stuttgart this spectacular glass is inspiring with its sleek elegance. The glass galleries invite you during the day to a magnificent view of the city and the surrounding slopes, at night the cube floats as a fascinating light sculpture above the Small Schlossplatz.

Mercedes-Benz Museum
More than 120 years of innovative automobile history is displayed here on three floors. You can see the first automobiles in the world by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, of course the first Mercedes and a further 80 milestones which make up the myth of Mercedes.

Porsche Museum
About 80 vehicles and many small exhibits will be on display at the new Porsche Museum in a unique ambience. In addition to world-famous, iconic vehicles such as the 356, 550, 911, and 917, the exhibits include some of the outstanding technical achievements of Professor Ferdinand Porsche from the early 20th century.

State Gallery Stuttgart
The classicist building from the 19th century, the Old State Gallery, is home to the works from the 14th to the 19th century as well as the graphic collection with its extensive inventory of drawings, water paintings, collages, printed graphics, illustrated books, posters and photographs. The New State Gallery, is dedicated to the art of the 20th century.

Television Tower
The world's first TV tower built from concrete. With a height of 217 metres you can even see the Alps if the weather is fine.

Wilhelma Zoo
Germany's unique zoological-botanical gardens, one of the most beautiful of its kind in Europe.