On the third day our trip will continue to the city of Stuttgart, capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of over 600,000. Stuttgart is a city spread across a variety of hills, valleys and parks. Quite surprising if you imagine most people will know the city as the ‘cradle of automobile,’ where Mercedes started building the first cars. The city has a beautiful inner city and houses various museums, some even some even on automotive.

Nowadays the Stuttgart region is still known for its high-tech automotive industry with prominent companies like Daimler, Porsche, Mahler and Bosch. The Frankfurt region currently has Germany’s highest density of scientific, academic and research organizations. The area is home to several universities and colleges, amongst which the University of Stuttgart, and also houses six Fraunhofer institutes.