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Stuttgart & the Black Forest
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Why Go?
If one word could sum up Germany's southwesternmost region, it would be inventive.
Baden-Württemberg gave the world relativity (Einstein), DNA (Miescher) and the astro-
nomical telescope (Kepler). It was here that Bosch invented the spark plug; Gottlieb
Daimler, the gas engine; and Count Ferdinand, the zeppelin. And where would we be
without black forest gateau, cuckoo clocks and the ultimate beer food, the pretzel?
Beyond the high-tech, urbanite pleasures of 21st-century Stuttgart lies a region still ripe
for discovery. On the city fringes, country lanes roll to vineyards and lordly baroque
palaces, spa towns and castles steeped in medieval myth. Swinging south, the Black Forest
(
Schwarzwald
in German) looks every inch the Grimm fairy-tale blueprint. Hills rise steep
and wooded above church steeples, half-timbered villages and a crochet of tightly woven
valleys. It is a perfectly etched picture of sylvan beauty, a landscape refreshingly oblivious
to time and trends.
