This is the name often recalled together with the word ‘Germany’. Being for a long time a major city of constituent ‘lands’, Leipzig became the place that the reunification of Germany began in late 1980’s. Once just a fortress on a trade crossroad, Leipzig developed into one of Europe’s centers of trade and culture. Its University - one of the oldest and most prestigious ones in Germany – ‘produced’ graduates entire World is proud of: Goethe, Schiller, Leibniz, Nietzsche and a number of Nobel Prize laureates.
 
 As Leipzig is almost 1000 years old and all this time it was evolving as merchant city, it is hard not to find a cheap Leipzig hotel here. Most of cheap Leipzig hotels are located close to historical part of the city. So, if you plan a lot of walking – which is definitely recommended here – then you will have no difficulty getting to your Leipzig hotel after a long walk in these streets that were walked by Bach, Mozart, Grieg and many other celebrities. Although historical in appearance, cheap Leipzig hotels have everything a today traveler would only dream of. You can find here 5 star hotels, luxury Leipzig hotels, cheap Leipzig apartments as well as budget Leipzig hotels, youth hostels, cheap B&Bs and other kinds of accommodation. Cheap hotels in Leipzig frequently offer their restaurants in the open air or inside. It just depends on the depth of your pocket and the desire to see and experience this city.
And there is a lot here worth seeing and experiencing.

 The most famous of Leipzig’s sites is, undoubtedly, the Thomaskirche (the Church of St. Thomas), which is the place where Johan Sebastian Bach worked and created many of his immortal works. Another one is Auerbach Keller (Auerbach’s Wineshop), where Goethe used to eat and drink together with his fellow-students, and which is described in his Faust.
 
 But the most picturesque place is the centre of Leipzig: the Market Square with the Altes Rathaus (Old town council) of 16th century on one side. Now it serves as a museum and concert hall. And if you want a real Leipzig antiquity then go inside to see the sitting hall with antique furniture, smoked fireplaces which are still being stoked, glazed tiles and portraits of town aldermen. And on every Sunday the trumpeters blow the city's anthem from the balcony of the Altes Rathaus. The Market Square itself and its surroundings make a marvelous shopping site.

 And the real paradise for children is Leipzig Zoo, with the largest aquarium in Europe and a lot of rear species, especially apes.