Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the Stuttgarter Kessel and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 613,111 as of 2023, making it the sixth largest city in Germany, while over 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and nearly 5.5 million people live in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city's metropolitan area is consistently ranked among the top 5 European metropolitan areas by GDP. Mercer listed Stuttgart as 21st on its 2015 list of cities by quality of living; innovation agency 2thinknow ranked the city 22nd globally out of 441 cities in its Innovation Cities Index; and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked the city as a Beta-status global city in their 2020 survey. Stuttgart was one of the host cities for the official tournaments of the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cups.
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Worth seeing in and around Stuttgart
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01MHPArena
MHPArena, formerly Neckarstadion, is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and home to Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart. It hosted football matches in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Euro 1988, the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and the UEFA Euro 2024.
4.1 km · football stadium in Stuttgart, Germany · Wikipedia - 02University of Stuttgart
The University of Stuttgart is a public research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties.
600 m · German public university · Wikipedia - 03University of Hohenheim
The University of Hohenheim is a campus university located in the south of Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1818, it is Stuttgart's oldest university.
7.6 km · German university · Wikipedia - 04Nunos porsche Museum
The Porsche Museum is an automobile museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart, Germany on the site of carmaker Porsche. It ranks second among the most visited museums in Stuttgart, behind the Mercedes-Benz Museum.
6.7 km · automobile museum in Germany · Wikipedia - 05Mercedes-Benz Museum
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automobile museum in Stuttgart, Germany. It covers the history of the Mercedes-Benz brand and the brands associated with it.
4.1 km · automobile museum in Stuttgart, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Old Castle
The Old Palace is a former castle located on the Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, Germany. The castle, originally a water castle dating back to the 10th century, was the residence of the Counts and later some Dukes of Württemberg and today is the home of the Landesmuseum Württemberg.
100 m · Renaissance castle in Stuttgart, Germany, seat of the Landesmuseum Württemberg · Wikipedia - 07Stuttgart Stadtbahn
The Stuttgart Stadtbahn is a light rail Stadtbahn system in Stuttgart, Germany. The Stadtbahn began service on 28 September 1985.
4 km · light rail system in Stuttgart, Germany · Wikipedia - 08Fernsehturm Stuttgart
Fernsehturm Stuttgart is a 216.61 m telecommunications tower in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the world's first telecommunications tower constructed from reinforced concrete, and is thus the original modernist architecture highrise needle tower with a "basket" atop that would be built worldwide in the following years.
2.5 km · TV tower · Wikipedia - 09New Palace
The New Palace is an 18th-century Baroque palace in Stuttgart and is one of the last large city palaces built in Southern Germany. The palace is located on the Schlossplatz in front of the Jubiläumssäule column and Königsbau.
200 m · palace in Stuttgart · Wikipedia - 10Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, it opened in 1843. In 1984, the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.
600 m · art museum in Stuttgart, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Stuttgart, which once had a reputation as the conservative capital of the south-west, has turned into a bustling metropolis with world-class culture, great shopping and night-life. The capital’s architecture is an appealing mixture of historical and modern buildings with green parks and even vineyards throughout the city.
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Where to eat
There are restaurants all over Stuttgart. The traditional Swabian cuisine with onion-topped roast pork, think noodles called "Spätzle" or Maultaschen (stuffed noodles) is very tasty. Of course there are also restaurants serving styles from many other parts of the world. Stuttgart publishes a book annually entitled Stuttgart geht aus (Stuttgart goes out). This is available at most book stores on Königstraße (e.g.
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Getting to Stuttgart
- Airports
- Stuttgart (STR), 10 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 81 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 117 km
- Stations
- Stuttgart Central Station, 700 m · Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe station, 9.8 km · Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 3.9 km · Stuttgart Schwabstraße station, 1.9 km
- Rheinmünster → Stuttgart83 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €12–17
- Memmingen → Stuttgart115 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €15–22
- Friedrichshafen → Stuttgart128 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · €20–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stuttgart
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stuttgart. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is a significant charter/holiday traffic between Stuttgart and the popular holiday destinations in southern Europe and North Africa, mostly served by dedicated carriers such as TUIfly.
- Get inTerminal 3 serves intercontinental flights (Delta, United), Eurowings, Aegean Airlines and other non Star-Alliance airlines, including Condor and Tuifly Terminal 4 is used mainly for charter and holiday flights Departures are one level above arrivals and two levels above the S-Bahn station.
- Go nextCan be a nice day trip for families with children.
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