Nicknamed "Pearl of the Baltic" Stralsund is with Wismar one of the most beautiful cities on the German coast. She shares with her the membership of UNESCO World Heritage. We would even go so far as to say that it is perhaps the most beautiful coastal city in Germany… this major Hanseatic port has preserved many aspects of its historical prestige even though it underwent some destruction during the Second World War. It is superbly situated on the Détroit Strait and surrounded by water plans. Its streets, punctuated by beautiful facades of pignon houses, its Gothic brick constructions, are a delight for your eyes. Stralsund is the ideal base for access to Rügen…HistoryThe city wrote its first pages of history in the th century. At that time Stralsund became a leading port and commercial city. No other city in the region had better access to the north, east and west, but it was the subject of all the covetous, and also of all attacks. She became a member of the Hanse and blooms in the th centuries, to be the second most influential city of the organization after the mother town Lübeck. After the weakening of the Hanse and the Thirty years war, Stralsund became Swedish for more than 200 years, which had to leave many traces in its architecture. It failed in the th century to Prussia, to remain permanently German. Today, its red brick walls are still visible and the street map is immutable, with market spaces, churches, cloisters and bourgeois houses. In this atmosphere, you must add the pastel tones of the facades to the first rays of sunshine, the walks along the coastal paths, and the fantastic view on the island of Rügen, the largest of the German islands.

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