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Leipzig Travel and Tourist Information

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ABOVE: The Auerbachs Keller restaurant is beneath the Mädlerpassage, one of Leipzig's nearly three dozen glass-roofed shopping arcades. INSET BELOW: The Hotel Fürstenhof, the Holiday Inn Garden Court, Auerbachs Keller, and Coffe Baum.

Hotels

Leipzig has more than 100 hotels, pensions, and guesthouses, ranging from luxury properties such as the Hotel Fürstenhof to the inexpensive Central Globetrotting Hostel (both of which are in the city center). For a guide to hotels in and around Leipzig, visit:

• Booking.com: Leipzig

(Booking.com, our hotel partner, is Europe's leading reservations service. Its site offers guaranteed lowest available rates, reviews by paying guests, hotel maps, and other helpful features.)

Tips:

• If possible, stay in Mitte, or the city center. Most of Leipzig's attractions are in or within walking distance of the center, and it's more convenient to stay in the heart of town or near the railroad station than to commute from the outskirts.

• Leipzig Tourism und Marketing GmbH has a variety of packages that combine a hotel stay with concerts, meals, tours or exhibitions, etc. Availability varies by season; check the tourist office's Web site or phone the accommodations line (see above) for current offers.

Restaurants and nightlife

You won't have any trouble finding a place to eat or drink in Leipzig: The city center has several outstanding restaurants with historical connections, such as the nearly 500-year-old Auerbachs Keller (where the Devil rode a cask in Goethe's Faust) and Gasthaus Barthels Hof, which serves Saxon cuisine and other specialties in a restored building and courtyard where merchants held "sample fairs" in the late 19th Century.

Coffeehouses are another Leipzig tradition, and Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum is one of the oldest continually-operated coffeehouse in Europe.

For more information on Leipzig's estimated 1,400 restaurants and pubs (including some 500 in the city center), see the Restaurants and Cafes section of the tourist office's Web site.

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1st inset photo copyright © LTS-Schmidt.
2nd inset photo: Venere.
 

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