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Stuttgart, Germany.
In this video I will cover the major attractions in Stuttgart.
Beginning with a walking tour of the historic city center.
A discussion of how mass transportation works in Stuttgart.
And then a brief visit to the Mercedes Benz Museum and the Porsche museum.
And we'll get started with a tour of the Stuttgart city center.
The city center is anchored by Stuttgart's main train station.
Which is most famous for it's twelve story tower with iconic Mercedez-Benz Star.
Another neat part about this train station is you can check in for the Lufthansa Air
Train.
It's a train to the plane.
A train that you can take to Frankfurt airport, but you can check in for your Airplane, get
your boarding pass and check in your luggage here at the train station.
A great way to get your bearings is to take the elevator up to the top of that twelve
story tower where you can check out some really neat views of the city from the twelfth story
observatory.
Directly in front of the train station is a 1.2 KM long pedestrian street that is Stuttgart's
main shopping street.
And that street, the Koningstasse, which you can see here from the Observatory, is a great
place to begin your exploration of Stuttgart.
And if you come on a warm weather weekend you'll find plenty of Stuttgart locals enjoying
the beautiful weather.
Maybe even blowing some bubbles.
If you're looking for shopping come any day except Sunday.
Sunday most of the stores on this shopping street are closed.
If you're looking for something to eat you'll find many eateries with indoor and outdoor
seating.
For food and of course German beer.
So not really a German food, but a pretty tasty food are Kebabs.
And they are just about everywhere in Stuttgart.
This one is a "Rolle".
mmm.
You could easily spend the greater part of a day exploring Stuttgart's city center.
There's lots of interesting side streets to explore.
Or, do like the locals do and just grab a seat on the steps.
Or maybe even enjoy a street break-dancing show performed to Classical Music!?!?!?
One particular attraction off the KoningStrasse not be missed is the Markthalle.
The Stuttgart Markthalle is considered to be one of Germany's finest markets.
It was built in 1912 in the Art-Nevau style.
In the square next to the Market Hall is a flea market every Saturday from 8am-4pm.
If you want to bring back some interesting vintage German souvenirs, this might be a
place to find something pretty unique.
For those that are more of the nature oriented type they might enjoy a walk in the Stuttgart
Castle Garden.
A 600 year old Garden in the form of a park.
It's so large that the map back here takes up four signs.
It's a nice park to go for a walk, stroll, or bicycle ride.
The park has some very lovely statues, fountains, meandering paths, and a lake.
The city center has more parks in addition to the castle garden.
In one of the neighboring parks I found this bird house, which is the biggest bird house
I've ever seen.
This looks less like a house, and more like a pigeon mansion.
Public transportation in Stuttgart is pretty easy.
There is two main types of trains.
There's the S-Bahn, and the U-Bahn.
The S-bahn is like a local railway, and the U-bahn of more of an underground subway / trolley.
Almost all the stations here will have a sign that will tell you what the next three trains
coming are and how long and what their destination is.
Buying tickets for the transportation in Stuttgart can be a little complicated.
The s-bahn and the u-bahn both have different ticket machines.
And the thing you need to know when buying your ticket is where you're going because
it will ask you to input your destination.
On the s-bahn you actually enter it on a keyboard and then it will bring up what your fare is.
On the u-bahn there is a touchpad and a number you enter the three digit code corresponding
to your destination.
Or if you know how many zones you're going to travel you can buy one of the all-day passes.
That's what I did and that's about the easiest.
6.80 euro for two zone travel.
It's pretty easy that way you don't have to buy tickets everytime.
For the U-bahn ticket machine you find your station on the numbers over here, then you
push the number of the station you're going on this keypad.
And then up at the top it tells you how much money to insert, you put that money in the
coin-slot, or the dollar slot, and then you get your ticket down here.
If you want a day-pass you can push one of these buttons, or a week pass.
The U-Bahn is essentially a underground subway or trolley depending upon what parts of the
city it's in.
The U-bahn is really better than the S-Bahn.
Because the U-bahn is actually air-conditioned.
And much newer.
One of the top visited attractions and the number one museum in Stuttgart is the Mercedes-Benz
Museum.
Getting to the Mercedes-Benz museum is pretty you take the S1 line from the main train station
to the NeckarPark Mercedes-Benz station.
It's about a five minute trip, pretty easy.
From the train station it's about 7 minute walk to the museum, on a pretty well signed
pedestrian route.
Another mode of transportation to the museum could be by a class mercedes benz car.
And if you own and drive a class Mercedes-Benz car, they'll actually let you park right in
front of the museum.
Admission to the museum is 8 euro, and it comes with a neat audio guide.
The first thing you'll see when you walk in is the grandfather clock engine, along with
a pair of motorized carriages.
One built by Daimler, and one built by Benz.
This is one impressive museum.
It houses 125 vehicles over 9 different floors.
And you could easily spend the good part of a day in here.
Car aficionados will really this enjoy museum.
But even people that aren't that in to cars will enjoy it for the wonderful presentation
and some of the more interesting vehicles like this Mercedes-Benz bus from Buenos Aires.
This museum really has everything, including a fancy sit down restaurant.
Where i had some of the best schnitzel that I had in all of Stuttgart.
It wasn't cheap though, 20 euro for the schnitzel, and 4 euro for the coke.
And last but not least on the ground floor is the Mercedes dealership showroom.
So if you were inspired by all that Mercedes history, you can take one home with you today
too.
The number two visited museum in Stuttgart is the Porsche museum.
The Porsche museum is in this very trippy building.
It looks like a big floating box filled with Porsches.
To get to the Porsche museum you take the S6 line to Porscheplatz.
It's located across the street from the Porsche office building, and the Porsche dealership.
Admission to the Porsche museum is also 8 euro, it comes with a slightly less fancy
audio guide.
The focus is on the history and design and engineering behind Porsche automobiles.
The Porsche museum isn't as big or grand as the Mercedes-Benz museum but if you've got
a couple days to spend in Stuttgart it's worth at least an hour or two to visit this museum
as well.
Porsche is very proud of their racing heritage so you'll see many of their race cars in the
museum.
And you'll also find the first Volkswagen bug.
Which was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.
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