It is spread across a variety of hills, valleys and parks. The city is known as the “cradle of the automobile”.
As such, it is home to famous automobile museums like the Mercedes-Benz Museum and Porsche Museum, as well as numerous auto-enthusiast magazines, which contributes to Stuttgart’s status as Germany’s “car capital city”.
It is most famous for its automotive industry (both Porsche and Mercedes-Benz have their headquarters in Stuttgart and both have car museums) as well as its mineral springs in the district of Bad Cannstatt which owns the second largest source of mineral water in Europe after Budapest. Also, it is Germany’s city with the largest vineyard area.
Stuttgart is a big city with a small-town atmosphere.
