Ravensburg – City of Towers
Categories: Sightseeing, Cultural and History
Ravensburg is a city full of sights you have to visit. There are a lot of medieveal buildings preserved in the city centre and even on the edges of the town. even because Ravensburg (Ravensburg vacation rentals | Ravensburg travel guide) was lucky during the second world war, a lot of sights are still preserved.
At first you should make a tour through whole town. Even guided tours are offered by the local tourism office:
"Tourist Information", street: Kirchstraße 16, zip code: 88212, city: Ravensburg
phone: 4975182800, fax: 4975182466
tourist-info@ravensburg.de
Opened: monday - friday: 9 - 17.30 o´clock, saturday: 10 - 13 o´clock
With these tours you can get an experience, what all you could exlpore in detail afterwards. A lot of these historical buildings are open to the public. Time schedules for that can be asked for at the tourist office.
One of the highlights of the city are the many towers, located all over the city limits. Because of that Ravensburg is also called city of the towers. One tower, called "Flour Tower" (german: Mehlsack) is even important for the local history of the city in medieval times. You can enter that tower regularly at Sa. / So. 10-15 o´clock (april – october), from where you have a great view all over the city.
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Opening Hours
The Tourist Information Center is open during the week from 9:00 am until 5:30 pm and on Saturday from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm.
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