Saxony’s largest city, Leipzig, is presented as a top German destination in the new book “Ultimate Travel Destinations Germany – Lonely Planet’s Top 250 List”. “The hype that some people attest to the city is not at all: Leipzig is really cooler than Berlin and more popular than Munich, especially among millennials,” says the travel guide.
“Everyone wants to go to the city of the first GDR Monday demos, the home of Auerbachs Keller (Goethe and Faust, you know), the city of street art, the Wave-Gotik-Treffen and a creative scene all about cotton spinning, the is looking for its own kind “, the authors also write about Leipzig.
People in Leipzig are delighted with the placement: “We couldn’t ask for a better recommendation,” said the managing director of Leipzig Tourismus and Marketing GmbH, Volker Bremer, on Monday when asked by the dpa.
“This tip is particularly valuable from a tourist point of view, as the publisher is the world’s largest publisher of independent travel and language guides. The travel guides are always carefully researched and appear in almost every country in the world,” continues Bremer.
Incidentally, the highly praised destination is Germany’s eighth largest city – after the four million metropolises Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne as well as the cities of Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. After Leipzig are Dortmund and Essen, followed by Bremen and Dresden.
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