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   Nunos porsche Museum

   A museum of 2009 at Zuffenhausen holding about eighty cars from a company that began by building a Volkswagen for Hitler's government and became the definition of the sports car. The 917 that won Le Mans in 1970 is in it.

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   Mercedes-Benz Museum

   A museum of 2006 in UNStudio's double-helix building, walked from the top down, holding a hundred and sixty vehicles — including the 1886 Patent-Motorwagen, the first automobile. The claim being made is that the company invented the car, and the case is strong.

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   Ludwigsburg Palace

   A baroque palace of four hundred and fifty-two rooms in eighteen buildings, called the Versailles of Swabia, and the largest baroque palace in Germany to survive unaltered — it was never modernised because the court moved to Stuttgart. Its gardens hold a fairy-tale park for children.

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   Old Castle

   A moated Renaissance castle grown from a tenth-century water fortress, and the residence of the counts and dukes of Württemberg until they built something grander. It now holds the state museum, whose Celtic and medieval collections are the substance of it.

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   Fernsehturm Stuttgart

   A tower of 1956, two hundred and sixteen metres high, and the first television tower anywhere built of reinforced concrete with a basket at the top. Every tower of that shape in the world descends from this one, which the engineer had to fight to be allowed to build.

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   Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

   The state gallery, opened in 1843, holding Swabian medieval painting — the Herrenberg Altar of 1519 — and the largest collection of Otto Dix anywhere, along with a strong twentieth-century holding in the extension next door.

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   Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave

   A Celtic burial of about 530 BC found in 1968 under a mound that had been ploughed almost flat. The chieftain lay on a bronze couch on eight wheeled figures, with a four-hundred-litre cauldron of mead at his feet and gold shoes on — the richest such grave north of the Alps.

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   Schloßplatz

   The largest square in central Stuttgart, in front of the New Palace of 1807. It was a parade ground closed to the public until the middle of the nineteenth century, and is now lawn, fountains and the place where the city sits down.

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   Wilhelma

   A zoological and botanical garden on the grounds of a Moorish-style royal pleasure garden of the 1840s, whose glasshouses and pavilions survive around the animal enclosures. It draws over two million visitors a year and has the largest magnolia grove north of the Alps.

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    Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

    A glass cube of 2005 on the Schlossplatz, built over a road tunnel, holding the city collection — above all Otto Dix, of whose work this is the largest holding in the world. The top-floor restaurant looks out over the square.

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   Neue Staatsgalerie

   James Stirling's extension of 1984, in striped travertine and sandstone with bright green window frames and a pink handrail — one of the buildings that made postmodernism respectable. A public footpath runs up through the middle of it whether or not the museum is open.

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   Birkenkopf

   A hill of five hundred and eleven metres on the western edge of the city, about forty metres of which is rubble from the bombing of Stuttgart — one and a half million cubic metres of it, carted up here after 1945. Broken cornices and window frames are left visible at the summit.

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   Hohenasperg

   A hill above Asperg that was a major Celtic stronghold and later a state prison, in which Württemberg locked up its awkward writers and democrats — so many that it was nicknamed the highest mountain in the country. The chieftain's grave at Hochdorf lies just below it.

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   Württemberg Mausoleum

   A domed mausoleum built between 1820 and 1824 by King Wilhelm I for his second wife Katharina. It stands on the hill from which the house of Württemberg took its name — he demolished the ancestral castle to make room for her tomb.

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   Stuttgart Collegiate Church

   The principal church of the Württemberg Lutherans, in the middle of the city, holding a row of eleven carved figures of the counts of Württemberg made in the 1580s. It was gutted in 1944 and rebuilt with a deliberately modern interior.

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   Wirtemberg Castle

   The site of a castle on the Württemberg hill at 411 metres at Rotenberg in Stuttgart in Germany. It was the second seat of the house of Württemberg after they left Beutelsbach, and three castles of that name stood there between 1080 and 1819.

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   Museum of Modern Literature

   David Chipperfield's building of 2006 at Marbach, holding the modern collections of the German literature archive and winner of the Stirling Prize. The manuscript of Kafka's Trial is kept here, shown in low light in a windowless gallery cut into the hillside.

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   Stuttgart Cathedral

   Catholic cathedral of Stuttgart, built in 1879 and burnt out in 1944. The neo-Gothic front was kept in the rebuilding of 1955 while the nave was fitted out in modern form.

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   Schillerplatz

   A square in the old centre named for Friedrich Schiller, whose bronze by Bertel Thorvaldsen was unveiled here in 1839. The Old Castle, the collegiate church and the Fruchtkasten granary enclose it, and a flower market fills it several mornings a week.

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    Linden Museum

    An ethnological museum of 1911 in Stuttgart, with collections from South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, China, Japan, the Americas and Oceania. Like every museum of its kind in Germany it is now working through where the objects came from.

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