One of the very few German cities that wasn’t heavily bombed, with lovely Victorian-era architecture. Famous for natural hot springs known since Roman times (very hot, very smelly). Lovely walking sitting with a large pedestrian shopping center and parks on

Kassel was a bit of a surprise - we’d never heard of it, but it’s a major city with a lot of history. Aside from the edges of the town it was almost completely destroyed in WWII and rebuilt in