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Germany - Leipzig
~ downtown - sights, shopping, interesting facts ~
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Just join me on my stroll through the
old city and enjoy
Leipzig has a small, very intimate
city center with narrow streets and alleys, where many of the sights
as well as the most
appealing shopping and dining opportunities
are close together. Thus, the best way to explore the Old Town is
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In the rear of the
Old Town Hall you'll find the so-called "Naschmarkt", a place with open air restaurant,
where you can relax and enjoy the historic charm of the city.
At the end of the place there is the
Old Commercial Exchange,
one of the oldest baroque buildings of the
city (completed in 1687). During the trade fairs mmerchants completed
and condignly celebrated their contracts here. Today it is used
for concerts and festive occasions.
The Goethe Memorial
in front of it commemorates the poet's university days (1765-1768)
and his many later visits to this city.
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Old Commercial Exchange |
Shopping, dining, sightseeing ...
A very interesting and appealing architectural
feature are the numerous passages and courtyards
in the inner city, where shops, boutiques, cafes and restaurants
line up. They originated mostly in connection with the construction
of sample fair buldings and palaces in the 19th and 20th centuries.
But also in recent times,
the tradition of passage construction has been continued. So shopping
is always a very special experience, because closely linked with
sightseeing and accompanied by numerous gastronomic temptations.
The most remarkable historical passages are undoubtedly the
Mädlerpassage,
Specks Hof and
Barthels Hof, while one of the most
attractive modern passages is the Petersbogen,
with great cinema, casino shops and restaurants.
The
Mädler Passage is one of the best
known and oldest in the city. Two sculptures from a scene of Goethes "Faust"
invite passers-by to visit Auerbach's Cellar, a historic
restaurant, which J. W. Goethe during his studies called his "favorite
wine bar"eternized in a scene in "Faust I".
A great attraction also is Karstadt,
a modern shopping temple with a large atrium, where on every hour
a fountain rises from the basement to water music 30 m in height,
up to the 6th floor, making shopping or a coffeebreak at the fountain
a real pleasure. Passages
and Shopping Malls
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Mädler Passage
with restaurant
Auerbachs Keller
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| Barthel's Hof(Court) |
Sample Fair Palace Speck's
Hof |
Speck's Hof atrium |
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| Höfe am
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Brühl |
Petersbogen |
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