Old Palace and Collegiate Church
Concordia Statue
round the city with an amusing and informative running commentary in eleven languages, including the Swabian dialect. It is a comfortable way of discovering the city with the opportunity to get off at each of the top ten selected sights.
The city lies in a lush valley
surrounded by vineyards with the River Neckar running through it. Its geographical location harnesses vibrant energy from the hills and river, and bathes the metropolis in auspicious chi from the atmosphere. On the higher elevation of the city, vineyards carpet the slopes among residential areas, refreshing the chi from the industrial district below. Stuttgart was heavily bombed during World War II by the Allied Forces and was completely rebuilt after the war, and some of the beautiful
historical buildings were restored. Today, Stuttgart is an important industrial city and home to Mercedes- Benz. In the heart of the city lies the Schlossplatz or Palace Square, the epicentre of activities in the city with regular concerts and festivals. It is a most congenial place to promenade and admire the beautifully landscaped park and the magnificent New Palace built in a diverse architectural style of Baroque, Classicism, Rococo and Empire in various periods from 1746
Mercedes-Benz Museum
to 1807. It was the royal residence of the kings of Wurttemberg up till the later half of the 19th
century. Built in a horseshoe shape with
a lovely fountain at the front, it is the perfect Feng Shui configuration embracing positive yang energy from the commodious “bright hall” represented by the park. Te Jubilee Column, built in 1841, stands in the middle of the square and was crowned with the statue of Concordia, the goddess of harmony in 1863. Today, the palace houses the ministries of the state government and
Symbol of the 3-pointed star inside the Mercedes-Benz Museum
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Photo on the (L) by Stuttgart-Marketing GmbH, and (R) by Michael Oon.
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