Kiel capital; Surface 15,763, 18 km ²; Population 2.828.986; Density 179 hab/km ²

The state of Schleswig-Holstein is the only German Land that includes two seas: the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The federated Kiel, State Capital, reunites every year to the best regatistas of the world in the Week of Kiel, that simultaneously is a great popular celebration. The shipyards and the traffic of ferrys with Scandinavia are inseparable of this traditional marine villa, like the ship-school “Gorch Fock”, that documents the narrow bows of Kiel with navy.
It has important shipyards and it every year celebrates “the week of Kiel”, that consists of several regatas of international fame. The other city of the region is Lübeck, whose medieval set is catalogued by UNESCO like cultural patrimony of the humanity.
Most of the interest places they are in the old helmet (Altstadt), a made oval island formed by waters of the Trave river and old pits of the city. Also it is worth the trouble to visit the Islands of Helgoland, famous by its red cliffs, Sylt, Föhr and Amrun, as well as the locality of Schleswig, with its beautiful cathedral: here is the altar of Bordesholm, masterpiece of imaginería of gothic the delayed one.