Things to do in Leipzig
Restaurants near venue
Right across the street:
- Doener Kebab
- Burger King
- Volkshaus, 100m walk, good lunch table! menu
North:
- An Chay, 400m walk, vegan diner, menu
- Renkli, 450m, excellent whines, Google Maps
- Bayerischer Bahnhof (historical train station), 600m walk, traditional local beer "Gose" (de) & food (menu: de PDF, en)
- Beyerhaus, 700m walk, pub/bar, Google Maps
South:
- Killiwilly (de), 450 walk, Irish pub, menu (de), Google Maps
- Acapulco, 450m walk, Mexican cuisine, Google Maps
- from here to south MANY MORE along Karl-Liebknecht-Str. ("Karli")
Leisure
- Clara-Zetkin-Park, 950m walk, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap
- Zoo Leipzig, 2,4km walk or 7 tram stops, #1 zoo in Germany, #2 zoo in Europe (Wikipedia)
City tours
Excursions (all in city center, all <2km walk from venue)
Observation platform on skyscraper âÂÂCity-HochhausâÂÂ
- highest building in Leipzig
- nice view over most of Leipzig for 3 EUR/person (coins required!)
Historic sites
- "Runde Ecke": former Stasi (state security of GDR) headquarter, central place of peaceful revolution in Leipzig and Germany (Wikipedia)
- Thomaskirche church: from 12h century, known for composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Wikipedia)
- Nikolaikirche (de) church: where peaceful revolution in Leipzig began (City of Leipzig website, Wikipedia)
- Naturkundemuseum (language can be switched with Javascript) (natural history museum, Wikipedia)
Architecture
Very close to city center:
- Gruenderzeit buildings in districts Musikviertel (de) and Waldstrassenviertel
- Federal Administrative Court, German "Bundesverwaltungsgericht" Wikipedia
Inside city center:
- New Town Hall in historicism style and with a working Paternoster lift (not officially available for the public but you can sneak in)
- Old Town Hall
- famous arcarde galleries, German "Passagen", historically used for carting goods and now nice to walk, with many distinguished stores
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