Travel Guide Heidelberg

The shadow of the poets Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim hovers over the castle, whose pink colour bursts out at sunset. But also those of Hölderlin, Mark Twain, or Goethe who fell in love with Marianne von Willemer - whom he made the Suleika of his Western-Eastern Divan. Victor Hugo, in Le Rhin, admitted: "I arrived in this city ten days ago (...) and I cannot get away from it. »Heidelberg was the temple of romanticism, the ultimate destination of the solitary dreamer. Since then, this city, internationally renowned for its University, the oldest in Germany, has become a very popular tourist destination. Come in autumn or winter to get less traffic, but good weather sometimes forgets to be there.Heidelberg - literally, the blueberry mountain - is undoubtedly worth a visit. Its old streets will tell you the turbulent history of this exceptional site, which was besieged several times and completely destroyed in 1693 by the French troops of Louis XIV. They will tell you how, in 1815, the Emperor of Austria, the Tsar of Russia and the King of Prussia signed the Holy Alliance there. They will tell you about the sorrows of the great poets who came to meditate on the path of the philosophers. And maybe Heidelberg will be conducive, for you too, to romanticism, melancholy, or crazy ideas... Who knows?