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One Week
Stuttgart & Black Forest
Begin with a couple of days exploring the galleries, stately plazas and vibrant nightlife of
regional capital
Stuttgart
. High on your agenda should be the city's regal heart,
Schlossplatz, the Staatsgalerie's art treasures and evenings spent sampling local rieslings
in a
Weinstube
(wine tavern) or hanging out in Theodor-Heuss-Strasse's lounge bars. Car
fans should race to the space-age Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums. On day three,
head west to
Baden-Baden
, a swish art nouveau spa town picturesquely nestled at the
foot of the Black Forest's spruce-cloaked hills. Here you can wallow in thermal waters as
the Romans once did, saunter through the sculpture-speckled Lichtentaler Allee gardens
and try your luck in the ever-grand casino. Day four takes you south along the serpentine
Schwarzwald-Hochstrasse, or B500, with tremendous forest and mountain panoramas at
every bend. Stop to glimpse Germany's largest square in
Freudenstadt
on your way to
the curving
Kinzigtal
, the prettiest valley in this neck of the woods, with its orchards,
vineyards and cluster of half-timbered villages waiting to be ticked off like rosary beads.
Your fifth day takes you to the Black Forest's most storied town,
Triberg
, where Ger-
