11 Reasons for Baden-Baden

A soap brush massage in the traditional “Friedrichsbad”? Incomparably soothing. A rainy day in the Caracalla Spa’s extensive sauna landscape? Wonderfully relaxing. Both spas are not only impressive from an architectural point of view, they also offer high quality wellness and beauty treat-ments and are supplied with water that cannot be praised often enough. Bubbling upwards from twelve springs at a depth of about 2,000 metres under the earth. They push out roughly 800,000 litres a day, at temperatures of as much as 68 °C.

Plunge into the art world with all your senses. Works by renowned international artists hang in the galleries: Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Neo Rauch – to name just a few of them exhibited in the Museum Frieder Burda. A glass bridge connects the Museum Frieder Burda with the “Staat-liche Kunsthalle”, another museum. The bridge might be seen as a symbol of what makes Baden-Baden unique: the extraor-dinary never stands alone, but is always embedded – in conversation – with its surroundings. Another extraordinary and one of its kind is the Fabergé Museum. Showing 700 master-pieces of Carl Peter Fabergé as well as the world’s largest collection of cigarette cases, ani-malistic miniature figures and copper and brass articles.

The Festival Hall Baden-Baden is Germa-ny’s largest concert hall. The construction was a much-anticipated event – and thanks to its widely celebrated acoustics, the building has more than exceeded ex-pectations. Eleven months of the year the venue presents music and dance pro-grams of the highest quality. Every Easter the Festival Hall produces its very own operas together with the Berlin Philhar-monic, the world’s best companies dance at the most exclusive ballet residences and many other artists can be seen and heard.

The Kurhaus, the town’s splendid shining point. Stroll past the windows of the fine shops under the colonnades, take a little walk in the park, then the evening at the Kurhaus can begin: be it a concert, casino visit, midnight dinner or glittering ball – everything beguiles. The Casino is the place where the night shimmers and shines: in the extravagant Club Bernstein, in The Grill restaurant and, of course, at the gaming tables. Rou-lette, blackjack and poker await you. Your chips are dwindling. You take a deep breath: put everything on the 17. And you win: heaps and heaps of money. Fabu-lous!

Get your pulse racing. There’s only one central question on everyone’s mind during the International Horse Races at Ba-den-Baden’s Iffezheim racecourse: who’s the fastest? Not to be the fastest, but to be the old-est. That is the fact that counts at the International Vintage Car Meeting. The Philharmonic Orchestra inspires with gen-tle sounds at the Philharmonic Castle Concerts and at the Philharmonic Parknight. Finally, in Baden-Baden the year ends traditionally with the Christmas Market, a light snow falling and the scent of roasted chestnuts in the air in front of the grand festively lit Kurhaus. What more could you ask for?

Lichtentaler Allee winds through charming parkland to the city’s major art locations, allowing you to imitate a 19th century flâ-neur: “strolling slowly and with no par-ticular goal”. “The Promenade”, Lichtentaler Allee’s nickname, takes you past the grand hotels and museums, re-vealing to you the splendor of Baden-Baden’s palaces and villas. Swan Lake, Caprice and Burning Love are just three of 400 rose varieties in the “Gönneranlage” that will bewitch you with their scents.

Visitors to the Black Forest National Park can experience the wild beauty of the Black Forest, the magic of unspoiled na-ture and tranquil islands far away from the hustle and bustle of daily life. Baden-Württemberg’s Wuerttemberg’s first na-tional park was founded on 1 January 2014. On an area covering some 10,000 hectares between Baden-Baden and Freudenstadt, the forest is allowed to grow a little wilder. The motto here is: ‘Let nature be nature’. From the rare three-toed woodpecker to the bark beetle, there is room for all in the National Park, parts of which are in the municipal forest. Discover the nature trail and the hiking trail, both of which pass through the fu-ture primeval forest on narrow pathways.

Baden-Baden’s hotels making guests feel at home. Accommodation is a word, which can hardly be used to describe Baden-Baden’s myriad rooms, suites, apart-ments, which, in their very diversity, cater to every possible desire. Lovers of exu-berant elegance, fans of mid-century de-sign, city dwellers looking for rural charm as well as families: all are warmly wel-comed. Whether to enjoy the luxury of international grand hotel Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa, the elegance of the Dorint Maison Messmer, the modern Design of the Roomers, the charme of the Belle Epoque at the Hotel “Belle Epoque” or the romance at the hotel “The Little Prince”.

Star awarded gourmet restaurants or cosy little taverns. There’s no doubt that Ba-den-Baden whets the appetite – and sates it just as effortlessly, thanks to the varie-ty of choice available to meet every taste. Global cuisine is also well represented, in all its forms: whether you prefer to sam-ple ultra-trendy sushi and beef special-ties, dine on traditional Indian or Asian food; enjoy seasonal French dishes, the excellent local cuisine or classic Bavarian or Bohemian specialties. There’s just one thing you have to do: choose.

Baden-Baden is a mecca for gourmets and – let’s not forget – wine connoisseurs. What’s known simply as “surrounding countryside” elsewhere, is the revered “Rebland” or wine country. With countless sundrenched vineyards producing fruit for Riesling, Pinot Noir, Pinot Bianco, Pinot Gris, sparkling wine and schnapps.

Get fit and play golf: One of Germany’s most beautiful region awaits you! Between the mountains of the Black Forest and the Vosges, six championship courses provide golfers with exhilarating challenges. After your golfing adventure, four Golf Hotels would be glad to welcome you for relaxation. The combination of a picturesque cultural landscape, a luxurious ambience and authentic hospitality is the combination that counts in the Golfregion Baden-Alsace.