Heiligenstein

Baden-Baden


It’s worth going the extra mile (or seven) to this sweet hotel overlooking vineyards. Pared-back, earthy-hued rooms come with balconies, and guests can put their feet up in the spa and gardens. The highly regarded restaurant (mains €16 to €27) serves local, seasonally inspired fare, from freshly caught trout to venison with blackcurrant sauce and asparagus.


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1. Geroldsauer Wasserfälle

2.88 MILES

Word has it that German composer Brahms and French painter Courbet had a soft spot for these wispy falls, which plunge over mossy boulders into a green…

2. Lichtentaler Allee

3.48 MILES

This 2.3km ribbon of greenery, threading from Goetheplatz to Kloster Lichtenthal, is quite a picture: studded with fountains and sculptures and carpeted…

3. Russische Kirche

3.52 MILES

Beautiful, if a little incongruous, Baden-Baden's Byzantine-style 1882 Russian church is lavishly adorned with frescos and topped with a brilliantly…

4. Museum Frieder Burda

3.54 MILES

A Joan Miró sculpture guards the front of this architecturally innovative gallery, designed by Richard Meier. The star-studded collection of modern and…

5. Staatliche Kunsthalle

3.56 MILES

Sidling up to the Museum Frieder Burda is this sky-lit gallery, which showcases rotating exhibitions of contemporary art in neoclassical surrounds…

6. Casino

3.6 MILES

The sublime casino seeks to emulate – indeed, outdo – the gilded, chandelier-lit splendour of Versailles. Marlene Dietrich called it ‘the most beautiful…

7. Kurhaus

3.61 MILES

Corinthian columns and a frieze of mythical griffins grace the belle époque facade of the Kurhaus, which towers above well-groomed gardens. An alley of…

8. Kloster Lichtenthal

3.62 MILES

Lichtentaler Allee concludes at the Kloster Lichtenthal, a Cistercian abbey founded in 1245, with an abbey church where generations of the margraves of…