Tips for the Day Ideas for a Day in Bonn
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Tips for the day Ideas for a day in Bonn The second-largest and oldest pedestrian zone in Bonn nformation A warm welcome to Bonn! Germany is an inviting shopping area, where a large selection of specialist stores and branches of chain Windeckstraße 1 / on Münsterplatz Beethoven, culture, museums, botanical gardens, stores has something for every taste. 53111 Bonn the former Government District, the romantic Rhine – there’s a lot to discover in a day in Bonn. To prepare your programme for the day, our tourist city Telephone: +49 228 - 77 50 00 map provides practical help. Download it at Fax: +49 228 - 77 50 77 You can walk around Bonn’s city centre on your own or join one of our guided tours. Choose your favourite www.bonn.de or order it from Bonn-Information e-mail: [email protected] guided tour from a wide range of different themes! (price: € 0.50). www.bonn.de/@daytours For a guided tour of the city centre, try the itour audio We recommend the big tour of the city in the popular Opening times: guide (hire at Bonn-Information for a fee of 7.50 euros). open-top bus (daily at 2 pm in the summer months). Monday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm On this tour you will learn a lot about Bonn and Bad Saturday 10 am – 4 pm Godesberg, while enjoying wonderful views of the Rhine Sunday and public holidays and the Siebengebirge hills. Afterwards you will see The Bonn Regio Welcome Card gives you 10 am – 2 pm free or reduced-price admission to many the main sights of Bonn’s city centre on foot. (duration: museums and leisure attractions in Bonn as approx. 2.5 hours) well as free journeys by bus, tram and train. We are pleased to advise you or work Our service for you: out an individual tour for you. Publisher: Telephone +49 228 - 77 50 00 The visitor guiding service of Bonn-Information is at the The Mayor of the Federal City of Bonn e-mail: [email protected] disposal of individual groups. The team is pleased to Economic Development Office, Bonn-Information, Press Office, advise you about city tours for groups and provides a suit- Bonn nformation Design: www.weeber-werbeagentur.de, able guide who will conduct the tour at the desired time. Status: 04/2015 Telephone: +49 228 - 77 39 21 Images: Bundesstadt Bonn, The Rhine panorama: e-mail: [email protected] www.gierfotobonn.eu, Cover photo: Tourismus&Congress GmbH You can plan a visit to the city preserving the memory of the famous musician and com- Visit the Southern Quarter and Siebengebirge and Drachenfels poser and to research. In the Digital Beethoven House you (duration: 3-5 hours, depending on the programme) exactly as you wish, combining can experience music in visible form. Botanical Gardens various components to make a (duration: approx. 2 hours) Bonn is the ideal starting point for an excursion to the Siebengebirge, Germany’s oldest nature reserve. You can In Bonn there are more than 30 museums, many Bonn’s Südstadt (Southern Quarter) with its magnificent programme for the day... house façades was built between the end of the 19th and travel by tram or boat to Königswinter and from there go of them in the city centre. Did you know that the walking in the Siebengebirge. The oldest rack-and-pinion famous Neanderthal Man can be seen in the the early 20th century. Here you will find appealing pubs, cafés and restaurants. The Botanical Gardens with their railway in Germany will take you to the Drachenfels sum- Visit the Museum Mile LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn? mit – or you can walk up. A wonderful view of the Rhine (duration: approx. 2-3 hours) open spaces and hothouses display a variety of native and exotic plants. They can be reached by means of an valley and surrounding area is the reward for the climb. From the city centre it is a convenient journey of only Visit the former Government District easy walk from Kaiserplatz in the city centre along the a few minutes on tram routes 16, 63 and 66 to Bonn’s (duration: approx. 1-2 hours) beautiful avenue Poppelsdorfer Allee (approx. 1.2 km). Halfway up the Drachenfels, surrounded by a Museum Mile, with institutions that attract around two landscaped park, lies the 19th-century mansion million visitors each year. Well-planned permanent The former Government District (Bundesviertel) is a symbol Schloss Drachenburg. There are guided tours at exhibitions and highly regarded temporary exhibitions of the first successful German democracy. It represents the Visit Bad Godesberg (duration: approx. 1-2 hours) fixed times and on inquiry. present subjects related to society, politics, technology, transformation of Bonn from its previous status as capital art, culture and nature. of the Federal Republic of Germany to an international A tram or regional train takes you to Bad Godesberg from business centre. Since 1996 Bonn has been the German Bonn city centre in only a few minutes. A walk around the Trip on the Rhine city of the United Nations and has evolved into a centre town centre leads to the Redoute, the Draitschbrunnen (duration: approx. 3-5 hours depending on the route and The museums on the Museum Mile put on of international cooperation. Trace the Path of Democracy fountain and the Godesburg castle. It is also worth explo- programme) varied supporting programmes. Every year to important sites of contemporary history such as Villa ring the district of fine villas, home to many embassies in May and June they get together for the Boats operated by the Weisse Flotte take you up the Hammerschmidt and the former plenary chamber of the in the decades when Bonn was capital of the German Museum Mile Festival. river, past romantic slopes to the wine towns of Königs- Bundestag! Federal Republic. winter and Linz with their picturesque half-timbered houses. Whichever place you visit – don’t fail to try a glass Visit the Beethoven House Visit the House of History (Haus der Geschichte; of wine before returning to Bonn. (duration: approx. 1-2 hours) free admission). Groups can book their own guide Between the different stops on the programme, you can Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in the at Bonn-Information for the Path of decide which is your favourite among a large number of Beethoven House in Bonngasse. Now home to the Democracy. restaurants and cafés in Bonn, take a stroll through the world’s largest Beethoven collection, it is devoted to city, or walk along the banks of the Rhine. .