Visit this grand dame of a town while the Christmas market (visit.baden-baden.de) is still in full swing (until January 6). Its stalls are a particularly pretty example among Germany’s festive markets ...

Winter was getting old. True, the weather in Germany has been unseasonably mild, but certainly not balmy. And then there’s the rain. I began daydreaming of warm beaches, but neither my ...

Nothing quite matches a good old-fashioned spa town like Baden-Baden. And by old-fashioned, I mean really old-fashioned-or rather, "exceptionally storied." Roman soldiers garrisoned in what is now the ...

IN the spa towns of Germany and Switzerland, patrons can indulge in the Roman-Irish nude bath. At the 19th century bathing palace in Baden-Baden for example, clients are put through a 17-stage ritual ...

BADEN BADEN, Germany -- Meaning "bathing bathing" in German, Baden Baden makes no secret of its main attractions. Situated at the northern edge of the Black Forest, the town has attracted ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Baden-Baden in southwest Germany is best known as a fashionable nineteenth-century spa town and current wellness centre. It has lovely ...

Cars race past us as we turn off the Autobahn motorway and onto a quieter street that leads into a long, tube-shaped tunnel. For more than two and a half kilometres we speed through Michaelstunnel, ...

The Romans were the first to be drawn to the springs in the foothills of the Black Forest, but it was in the 19th century that Baden-Baden began to establish itself as an elegant social playground.