Guided Tours - Hannover
Information and Reservation:
Hannover Marketing & Tourismus GmbH
City tours
Ernst-August-Platz 8
D-30159 Hannover
Tel.: +49-511-12345-333
Fax: +49-511-12345-334
staedtereise@hannover-tourismus.de
www.hannover.de
Hannover - The Grand Tour
A journey in search of the city’s history and heritage
Duration: approx. 2.5 hours, in German or other languages
The vicissitudes of Hannover’s history - as a Gothic Hanseatic town, a former royal capital, a northern industrial city during the Wilhelminian period, or a modern state capital - have left their mark on the townscape, making the city a place with many historical monuments and a rich cultural heritage to be discovered: the Leine Palace, the Old and New Town Halls, the Market Church, the Opera House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Leibniz House, the magnificent gardens and parks of the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen, the Guelph Palace, the Waterloo Column, the lovingly restored town houses from the turn of the previous century, a great diversity of museum buildings and cultural amenities, modern street art (the Nanas, the unique designer BUSSTOPS) etc., etc…
If desired, a visit to the Great Garden an also be included in the city tour: the admissin fee is then payable in addition)
Duration: approx. 2,5 hours, in German or other language
Price for guide up to 3 hours:
German language: 105,- Euro
Other languages: 130,- Euro
Additional hour: 34,- Euro
Price for bus renting on request
GardenWonder & FlowerPower
Guided Tour through the Royal Gardens in Herrenhausen
Tour of the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen (Great Garden and/or Berggarten)
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours, in German or other languages
Stroll pleasurably through the Great Garden, the best-preserved of all baroque gardens, with its history going back over 300 years. You will find inspiration in the “Grand Parterre” with its filigree patterns of box edgings, marble chippings and colourful flowerbeds. Paths laid out in geometrical form lead you to numerous points of interest.
One particular attraction is the Grotto, newly fitted out to the designs of the artist Niki de Saint Phalle. The three rooms of the Grotto, with their magnificently colourful mosaics of stained glass and mirror fragments, their pebbles and numerous painted sculptures, symbolise “human life”. The Berggarten is no less worth seeing. This botanical garden is celebrated for its unique collection of plants from all over the world. Even frequent visitors are thrilled again and again by one of the biggest and most diverse permanent exhibitions of orchids in the world, and by the display houses for cactuses and other tropical plants. The Georgengarten, the third component of the Herrenhausen Gardens with a charm all of its own, is a landscape garden laid out in the old English style.
Duration: 1,5 hours
in german language: 84,- Euro
in foreign languages: 99,- Euro
+ Entrance fee to the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen
Hannover - walk about
Experience the special sites and attractions around Kröpcke, Leine Palace (Leineschloss) and Market Church (Marktkirche).
Lots of picturesque corners with medieval half-timbered houses lie hidden away in the Old Town. Stroll along by the River Leine through the different periods of the city’s history, see all the remarkable and unusual things around the Leine Palace, and discover the street art of the 1970s and the BUSSTOPS, created by well-known artists as part of Hannover’s International Design Project in 1994
Duration: 1,5 hours
in german language: 100,- Euro
in foreign languages: 115,- Euro
New Town Hall - with a view
Visit to the New Town Hall with ascent to the dome
Duration: approx. 1 hour
The New Town Hall was built at the beginning of the 20th century in the bombastic style of the Wilheminian period. The tower with its dome measures no less than 97.73 metres to the point of its gilded finial. Inside, models of the city show four phases in Hannover’s development: 1689, 1939, 1945 (after the bombing) and today.
A technical rarity, the oblique lift, takes visitors up to a viewing platform from where they have a magnificent view over the city.
Prices on request!
Hannover Illuminations
What better than to tour Hannover´s festively illuminated Olt Town and city centre and get in seasonal mood in the run up to Christmas. Enjoy the magical atmosphere and olde-worlde charm of the Christmas illuminations in the Old Town. The illuminations and decorations, and the historic setting, reflect the real spirit of Christmas - conjuring up a completely new look to the city centre, which you can explore with the professional accompaniment of our tour guides. Round off the tour with a glass of hot punch at the traditional Christmas Market.
Duration: 2 hours
in german language: 100,- Euro
in foreign languages: 115,- Euro