Germany travel guide
Before you go to Germany
- Currency
- EUR €
- Emergency number
- 112 / 110
- Plug type
- F, Type F (Schuko)
- Tap water
- safe
- Tipping
- optional
- Bargaining
- Not expected
- eSIM
- Available
- Card networks
- Visa, Mastercard
- ATM fees
- Usually free at bank ATMs; avoid Euronet
Cities in Germany
- Berlin Germany's reunified capital is one of Europe's most layered, dynamic and creatively charged cities. The Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag's…
- Munich Bavaria's glittering capital reconciles prosperity and good-humoured beer-garden charm. The neo-Gothic Rathaus on Marienplatz anchors a…
- Hamburg Germany's second-largest city and its greatest port. The Speicherstadt (UNESCO) is the world's largest warehouse complex, home to Miniatur…
- Cologne Home to the twin-spired Cologne Cathedral (UNESCO, 157 m tall) — took 632 years to complete, Germany's most visited building at six million…
- Frankfurt The financial heartbeat of continental Europe — home to the European Central Bank and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The rebuilt Römerberg…
- Heidelberg Germany's most romantic city — a Renaissance dream of red-sandstone castle ruins brooding over a Baroque old town on the Neckar River,…
- Dresden The Florence of the Elbe — a Baroque jewel whose royal showpieces were largely destroyed in the 1945 firebombing and painstakingly rebuilt.…
- Nuremberg Bavaria's second city: the grandeur of the Kaiserburg fortress, the dark chapter of Nazi rally grounds, and the 1945–46 Nuremberg Trials…
- Rothenburg ob der Tauber The most completely preserved medieval walled city in Germany, on a promontory above the Tauber River on the Romantic Road. Its intact town…
- Füssen A small Alpine town of 15 000 residents and gateway to Germany's most photographed castle. Neuschwanstein — King Ludwig II's 19th-century…
- Freiburg im Breisgau Germany's sunniest city and gateway to the Black Forest. Its medieval Bächle water channels run through the cobblestoned streets. The…
- Baden-Baden Europe's most elegant spa resort in a wooded northern Black Forest valley. The Romans exploited the 68°C springs here first; Napoleon III,…