This is a duplicate from the Salzburg forum wherein I asked for advice about where to bring our two young daughters(4%26amp;9) for Christmas 2007.
We love the holidays and want to make it special for them. We are considering flying into Munich - My husband really would like to take them to Neuschwanstein castle - but other than that we are open for ideas - black forest? over to Austria? to Prague? or down to Zermatt? we have 14 days and we love driving in new places!
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I%26#39;ll copy and paste some previous Stuttgart Christmas market comments by me.
Stuttgart has Europe%26#39;s largest and one of the oldest and most beautiful Christmas Markets. 15 minutes away by S-bahn are two smaller themed Christmas markets that attract over a million visitors each: Ludwigsburg Baroque Christmas Market near the largest perfectly preserved Baroque palace in Germany; and Esslingen Medieval Market %26amp; Christmas Market in the excellently preserved medieval center of this town. Stuttgart has a lot of things to see and do including excellent opera, ballet and music; the excellent mercedes Benz Museum and the much smaller Porsche Museum; Europe%26#39;s largest combination zoo-botanical gardens; Europe%26#39;s second largest mineral springs with three large associated baths; many other museums. There is also the Christmas circus. Any of the towns at the end of the six S-bahn lines are nice to visit for a few hours such as the poet Schiller%26#39;s home town of Marbach or the astronomer Keppler%26#39;s home town of Weil der Stadt.
www.stuttgarterweihnachtsmarkt.de
www.stuttgart-tourist.de
www.ludwigburg.de
www.esslingen-tourist.de
www.mittelalterliches-esslingen.de
Rooms in Stuttgart are bookable through the above tourist office. I always recommend the City Hotel,which is a 5-10 minute walk to the Schlossplatz (center of Stuttgart) and the Christmas market. They have free parking.
If you are driving, the fairy tale-like castles of Lichtenstein (will be closed but viewable exterior) and Hohenzollern (Hechingen) are excellent. If your daughters like horses they will be thrilled to visit Germany%26#39;s oldest state stables which is world-famous at Marbach (Gomadingen) where you can enter the barns for close up views of these magnificent animals in their stalls. This is close to Lichtenstein castle. The old college town of Tuebingen is very nice and will be also having a Christmas Market. Just north of there is the excellently preserved medieval Bebenhausen monastery. Medieval world heritage Maulbronn monastery is also a nice place to visit. It%26#39;s possible both former monasteries will be having a Christmas Market, especially if it is a weekend. The old town centers of Besigheim and Lauffen make nice stops along the Neckar River to the excellent Christmas market in medieval Bad Wimpfen, only open weekends. The northern Black Forest starts very near Stuttgart.
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