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Wiesbaden: Sparkling Winemaking Tour with 3-Glass Tasting

1. Wiesbaden: Sparkling Winemaking Tour with 3-Glass Tasting

Uncover what it takes to make all kinds of sparkling wine on a tour of the Henkell Freixenet production facility in Wiesbaden. Let your guide show you how sekt, champagne, and more are manufactured, then complete the tour by tasting the wine yourself. Head into the magnificent marble hall of the activity provider's headquarters. Meet your guide for a trip into the world of traditional bottle fermentation methods. Get ready to learn all about the way in which selected grapes are turned into sparkling wines. Then, witness the production process first-hand as you learn all about how these famous drinks are brought into being. See the various stages of the process including disgorging. Encounter this fascinating method with a demonstration where yeast freezes into the neck of a bottle of wine. Then, enjoy the freshly disgorged premium sparkling wine in its natural form as part of your tasting.

Wiesbaden: Self-Guided Outdoor Escape Game

2. Wiesbaden: Self-Guided Outdoor Escape Game

Experience a unique outdoor escape game right on your smartphone. Take on the role of a profiler who travels back in time to solve a tricky case. Complex challenges await you in this adventure that will lead you deeper and deeper into the swamp of organized crime. The puzzles are location independent, so you can look forward to tricky and exciting tasks. But after each level, you'll learn interesting facts about the environment around you. While solving the puzzles of this thrilling case, you'll wander past some of Wiesbaden's most fascinating sights. Grab your smartphones and head to the starting point to get started. Whether you work together as a team or split into smaller groups and teams, you can expect an exciting walk with breathtaking sights and relaxing breaks. Solve tricky puzzles, combine clues, discover surprising facts about each location, and enjoy the freedom to walk at your own pace. This game is ideal for escape game enthusiasts and puzzle fans who are looking for a challenging challenge for their group and don't want to miss out on the city's interesting locations.

Wiesbaden: Humorous stories and history

3. Wiesbaden: Humorous stories and history

Stories from then and now that will make you smile. Our guides will put a smile on your face with humorous stories during our guided tour. You will also find out everything you need to know about Wiesbaden. On a tour of downtown Wiesbaden, you'll learn about history and current events. Stations: 1. Tourist information 2. Villa Clementine 3. Warmer Damm (park) 4. State theater 5. Kurhaus Foyer and garden side 6. Nizza Plätzchen 7. Kolonnaden 8. Kaiser Friedrich Platz 9. becker fountain 10. castle square

Wiesbaden: Private Walking Tour with a Guide

4. Wiesbaden: Private Walking Tour with a Guide

Experience the beauty of Wiesbaden on a private walking tour with a guide. You will learn about the city while exploring famous places like the Kurhaus Colonnade, Wiesbaden City Palace, Kochbrunnen Square, and many more. Start your tour with a visit to the Kurhaus, built at the request of Emperor Wilhelm II. Stroll along the 19th-century Kurhaus Colonnade, Old City Hall, and New City Hall. Next, take a peek into Wilhelm Street and the historic district of Schiffchen. During the tour, your guide will tell you the history, stories, and facts about the city. Another point of interest is the famous Roman Heathens’ wall, which represents the architecture of a spa and residential town. Discover all the highlights of this historic city on an exciting 1.5-hour walking tour. 

Eltville: Eberbach Monastery Entry Ticket

5. Eltville: Eberbach Monastery Entry Ticket

Explore the Eberbach Monastery with your entry ticket and discover its wine cellars and museum. See the filming location for Sean Connery's "The Name of the Rose" and try wine grown at the monastery itself. Discover the monastery at your own pace, exploring its characteristic features, including its basilica and cloister with its arcade window designed by internationally-acclaimed artist, Thomas Bayrle. See the giant wine presses in the Baroque dining hall and the wine barrels in the cellar. Imagine the lives of the former monks as you stroll through their bedrooms and dining room. Stop at the ice cellar and take a look in the treasure chamber - a cellar full of wine bottles. In the Abbey Museum, learn about the monastery's history through documents, sculptures, and paintings. See art and sacral objects preserved on site in Eberbach, as well as loaned objects from public, ecclesiastical, and private collections. *Temporary illusions exhibition VERTRICKST! in Eberbach Abbey: Inclined planes, mirror rooms, whimsical birds: from September 24, 2022, everything in the Abbey Museum of Eberbach Abbey will revolve around the theme of optical illusions. For one year, the varied illusions exhibition "VERTRICKST!" shows the beginnings of perception research with moving images and kaleidoscopes as well as innovative techniques of augmented reality. More than 100 exhibits ranging from historical originals to pictures by Mexican artist Yunuen Esparza (born 1975), which only come to life with the right app on a smartphone, take guests young and old on an entertaining tour of optical adventures. The exciting experiences as well as numerous display boards simultaneously impart knowledge about visual phenomena. Room-in-room installations send visitors into dizzyingly slanted rooms or let them become part of surprising spheres and large-format painting prints. In a black-light room, magical 3-D worlds by artist Martin Hartmann (born 1980) peel out of the darkness.

Wiesbaden Center: Krimi-Rätsel-Tour

6. Wiesbaden Center: Krimi-Rätsel-Tour

Help find the important painting stolen from the state museum in broad daylight. Join the museum supervisor in their secret investigation and keep people from finding out that the museum is easy prey. Immerse yourself in a mystery-solving game as you make your way around Wiesbaden. Learn all the key facts about the case you're solving, then head out to find the missing work of art. Receive advice from the game master, but make your own decisions along the way to prevent the robber from striking again. Have fun solving tricky puzzles and decoding hints to uncover the mystery. Bring your friends or family along on this unique adventure and discover the city in an interactive way. Walk past well-known and unfamiliar places in the area as you come closer and closer to the solution. Work together as a team to crack the final code. It may be that you play in a team with other people if more tickets are booked - and together you are smarter.

Wiesbaden: City Highlights Guided Walking Tour

7. Wiesbaden: City Highlights Guided Walking Tour

Whether we go to the office or to the supermarket: we use entrances every day, we walk through doors, but only notice them casually, out of habit and because modern entrances pretend they don't exist: the glass doors of the hotel entrance open by themselves . In the late 19th century, when Wiesbaden became a big city, things were different: entrances received visitors and served as a means of self-portrayal. The portal of the Landeshaus wants to impress with its mighty portico. It demonstratively marks the threshold between outside and inside, the transition from public to semi-public space. The apartment buildings on Gutenbergplatz, whose entrances are guarded by obelisks, are similar: the visitor automatically stands at attention when he approaches the wrought-iron front doors. House entrances are built manners, they tell something about the habitus of the (former) residents and the change in our self-image: modernity attaches no importance to representation - and falls into the house with the door: Even the apartment buildings on the upper Klopstockstraße from the 1920s do without on the driveway and in the front yard. The two churches in the district show how important the staging of the entrance can be, even today: the gates of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, like the columned portal of the Lutherkirche, prepare the visitor for entering another, sacred space - he involuntarily pauses . With Christopher Schwarz, member of the jury for the German Architecture Prize.

Wiesbaden Biebrich: Outdoor Escape Game

8. Wiesbaden Biebrich: Outdoor Escape Game

Set out with your team as heroes in a gripping story to save the city. Before it comes to the grand finale, crack a lot of codes within 120 minutes and deliver logically successive solutions. The tasks are streamed on an iPad, as the live chat with a personal game master. Embrace the excitement to get the game going in a real-world setting. It can happen that you completely forget where you are, in the city or in a distant, strange world... Your neighborhood offers the perfect territory for enthusiastic thinkers. Be inspired by the cityscape, decipher architectural codes and find the missing elements to solve your mission. You may become a team with other participants - together you will be even smarter.

Wiesbaden: 3 Streams Hiking Tour

9. Wiesbaden: 3 Streams Hiking Tour

Enjoy a scenic walk in the valleys of Wiesbaden, a spa town on the Rhine River known for its many hot springs. Experience the peaceful tranquility of nature and admire the natural forest streams. Hear about local legends and history from your guide while you marvel at the scenic valleys. Arrive at the forest cemetery in Dotzheim, where your guide will greet you. Then, start your hike through the valleys. See 3 lowland streams, which almost never dry up, because they come from the springs of the Taunus. Listen to your guide explain interesting facts about the waters of Wiesbaden, a famous spa town with 26 hot springs. Afterward, continue to walk through scenic valleys while admiring the beauty of the streams and listening to the commentary from your guide.

Wiesbaden: Footsteps of Brahms Hike

10. Wiesbaden: Footsteps of Brahms Hike

The hike follows the footsteps of Brahms in the surroundings of Wiesbaden, in forest and meadow idylls, and traces the composer in the interrelationship of composing and nature, society and urban life. One of the most important and influential composers of the second half of the 19th century, Brahms composed a remarkable number of choral, orchestral, organ and chamber works. He also created numerous piano pieces and exercises for piano players. His works are mainly assigned to the Romantic era. He regularly spent summers in Wiesbaden and was close friends with Clara and Robert Schumann. The composer loved fresh air and scenic areas and was a great lover of nature. Living on the ground floor or on a slope, at the edge of a forest or park, armed with a silent keyboard and a notebook, Johannes Brahms began his daily work. Summer residences with attractive landscapes were popular with him, including Wiesbaden. He appreciated sociability, but also the originality of nature. Short-sighted and bare-headed, with trouser legs that were too short and in shirt sleeves, he walked briskly on his nature hiking and composing paths - paths and routes in the vicinity of Wiesbaden, where he was drawn by the charms of nature, the rustling of the trees, sun and water, the scents surrounded by flowers and trees with wide views. Why did he go out as a composer? Didn't musicians, artists and writers find their inspiration in nature? Does a craftsman unnecessarily exchange his workshop for being outside in nature? Brahms says: "...there is no work without hard work..." The unrest of the city drove him out into solitude, the sociability lured him. At the age of 14 he was already working as a song accompanist and piano teacher… Brahms only allowed completed works to speak. Only late did he become friends with symphonic works. Some of his symphonies are not easy to access. Clara Schumann raved about his third symphony, which he wrote in the summer of 1883: "...How one is enveloped in the mysterious magic of forest life from beginning to end!...I would like to call it a forest idyll...that one feels completely spun in everything the delights of nature". Dedicated to Wiesbaden, the work could also be described as the “national anthem of Wiesbaden”.

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