Stuttgart capital; Area 35.751 km ²; Inhabitants 10.694.215 (2004); Density 294 hab. /km ²

Baden-Wurtemberg (in Baden-Württemberg German) is one of the sixteen federated states of Germany called Bundesländer. It is located in the southwest of the country, to the east of the Rin river.
It limits: to the N with the state of Hesse, to NE and E with the state of Baviera, to the S with 334 km with Switzerland, to Or with France (region of Alsacia), and to NOT by the Rin river with the state of Renania-Palatinado.
It is the result of the union between the independent states of Baden and Wurtemberg, from 1952 and thanks to a popular consultation.
It is located in the southwest of Germany and is one of the States most attractive and visited by the tourism. Account with as beautiful places as the Black Forest, the lake of Constanza, valleys of the Rhin and the Danube and mountains of the Kaiserstuhl. Stuttgart, its capital, is a proud modern large city of its concert hall Liederhalle and the zoological Wilhelma.
The locality of Mannheim is described like the “drawn into squares city”, because it was conceived by Federico of the Palatinado in 1607 as an urban center of geometric plant. Other cities are Friburgo de Brisgovia, next to the Black Forest, Heidelberg, Ulm - with their cathedral and the bell tower upper of Germany, Karlsruhe and Tubinga.
The Black Forest (“Schwarzwald” in German) forms the geographic pillar of the southwest of Germany. From the city of Pforzheim of the north, to Waldshut in the south it has a length of about 160 km. In the northern zone, the Black Forest has a width of 20 km, in the south of 60 km. The highest summits arrive at a height of 1,166 ms (Hornisgrinde) in the north, up to 1,493 ms (Feldberg) in the Negra Forest sureña. In the west, the low mountain quickly to the plain of the Rin with a height of less than 200 ms. In the east, the slope to valleys of the Danube River and Neckar (of 600 ms) are smoother. Although the Black Forest is suitable for long excursions on foot, also can be crossed in car. One of the most attractive recommendations is the Schwarzwald-Panoramastraße highway. - That denomination by the multitude of panoramic views Received through which it happens in a route of 70 kilometers. If the time allows it, one can see until the Alps from some of the shutdowns. The panoramic highway begins in Waldkirch, raising in serpentines escarped until the monastery of Sankt Peter (San Pedro). It advances by the Kandel mountain and the town of Sankt Märgen. Having passed through Breitnau the highway it finishes in the population of Hinterzarten.