Leipzig: A stroll through the city centre

Motel One
This walk through Leipzig takes you on a 45-minute tour of a compact, green and culturally rich city centre. Spanning 3.6 kilometres, the route connects the Botanical Gardens, the New Town Hall, the Bach Museum, St Thomas’s Church, the Market Square, the City History Museum, the Mädlerpassage, the Zoo and, optionally, the Auwald. It’s ideal if you want to explore Leipzig on foot and combine the city’s history, music, shopping arcades and parks in a single walk. Click the link below to save it directly to Google Maps!
Motel One
  • Walking time: 45 mins
  • Distance: 3.6 km
  • Steps: 4,724
  • Elevation change: -10 m
  • Places of interest along the way: Botanical Gardens; New Town Hall; Bach Museum; St Thomas’ Church; Market Square; City History Museum; Mädlerpassage; Leipzig Zoo; floodplain forest
  • Hotels along the route: Motel One Leipzig – all three hotels at this location

A walk through Leipzig: which route links the parks, the stream and the city centre?

Leipzig was founded over 1,000 years ago and has since become the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony. Although the city is now a modern metropolis, you can still sense its thousand-year history – and even see it in some corners. This walking tour takes you past not only some of the city’s top sights, but also all our Motel One hotels. Added to this is the city’s perfect flat terrain, which makes Leipzig ideal for exploring on foot! With its many parks and green spaces, Leipzig is one of Germany’s greenest cities. In a city so much at one with nature, it’s only fitting to start your journey at the Botanical Garden – Germany’s oldest, by the way – and finish it at Leipzig Zoo. In between, you could, of course, make use of the excellent public transport network – but then you’d miss out on the monumental architecture of the New Town Hall and the Bach Museum, where you can follow in the footsteps of one of classical music’s greatest composers, who called Leipzig home. So why not take a leisurely stroll along Windmühlenstraße, past St Thomas’s Church – one of Leipzig’s main churches and the place where Bach worked – straight to the market square, the heart of the city. Here, history buffs can visit the City History Museum, which traces the city’s history from the early Middle Ages to the present day. For those with other interests: the Mädlerpassage, just round the corner, is one of the city’s few remaining shopping arcades and offers unique shopping opportunities. If you’re more drawn to the countryside, simply carry on to the zoo or the adjacent floodplain forest – and suddenly a 45-minute walk turns into a full-day outing that you can extend as you please.

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