The Best Western Branitz Park Hotel & Spa is centrally located between Berlin and Dresden, it serves as an excellent starting point for interesting trips in the surrounding area. Branitz castle in the Prince-Pückler Park, the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve and the Staatstheater in Cottbus are highlights for sightseeing tours.
About 100,000 people live in the second largest city of Brandenburg. The metropolis has the charm of a small preserves. Obviously for the Cottbus is the green of the city. You can rightly call it Park City. Hermann Prince Pückler-Muskau created 150 years ago the last German landscape garden of national rank. Genial is the diversity of the park insights, once the pyramids. The Seepyramide, last resting place of the prince and his wife, Lucie, changes in the game of the seasons change the color. In the park, the visitor finds the ensemble of the castle Branitz.
The Old Market Square is the heart of the city. Gabled baroque facades, plain eaves and magnificent mansions in their unity constitute an impressive ensemble. Remains of the medieval city walls with towers, gates and encircle the town Wiekhäusern ensemble. Different styles give the city 800 years old on the venerable face. Art History testimony medieval brick Gothic is the Upper Church of St. Nicholas. Art lovers swarm of Staatstheater Cottbus. In a unique synthesis of architecture, handicrafts, painting and sculpture Jugendstilbau this is the only one still recorded in Europe. In all divisions, the brilliant ensemble.
Forests, flowing, lush flora, fauna, unique - this is the Spreewald. The traditional culture and way of life of the Spree forests in the most unique landscape of this kind in Europe experienced it directly in front of the gates of the city of Cottbus. Unusual insights into a mining landscape succeed especially interested in specially-created viewpoints