Sights Rostock

	Inner City:
	Town Hall	The Town Hall with its feature wall dates from the 13th.century. The baroque frontage and the reception hall were completed in the mid 18th. century.
	Marien Church	The cruciform Gothic basilica is the principal church building in Rostock. The bronze font dates from 1290 and is the most outstanding example in the Baltic area. The astronomical clock, dating from the 15th.century, is a late Gothic masterpiece. It was possibly the work of a Nuremberg master clockmaker. Also impressive are the Rochus altar, the pulpit, the high altar and the noblemen’s box with the organ above it.
	Petri Church	The Petri church dates from the mid 14^th century from an earlier building. The 117 m. golden spire was destroyed in the bombing during WW2. The tower was rebuilt in 1994 and can be climbed from within.
	Fortifications	The sturdy Kuhtor is the oldest tower gate in north Germany. The Kroepeliner Tor at the end of the pedestrian zone is a Gothic structure. The 54 m. high tower serves as a museum nowadays. The Steintor dates back to the Renaissance.
	University Buildings	The main university building is built in the Italian Renaissance style and dates from the mid 19th.century. The ornate terracotta relief provides a charming contrast to the pale rendering.
	The Holy Cross Cloister	The Holy Cross Cloister is a heritage and historical museum. A comprehensive collection includes Dutch paintings from the 18th. and 19th.centuries. It offers a great deal of information about the development of the city and there is a continually changing programme of special exhibitions.
	Seafaring Museum D-18055 Rostock August-Bebel-Str. 1	The Seafaring Museum offers visitors an insight into the history of seafaring and the Hanseatic league. Exhibits there include portraits of sea captains, maritime coinage and models.
	Seafaring Museum D-18106 Rostock Liegeplatz Schmarl	The "Frieden" type traditional ship belongs to the Seafaring Museum and houses an exhibition on the history of shipbuilding.
	Zoo Rostock	Situated in a spacious park, it houses 2000 species from every continent on earth. The Rostock Zoo was opened in 1910 and specialises in northern animal and water fowl species. There are however elephants, monkeys, flamingos, giant snakes, etc. in abundance there too.
	Botanical Garden	The botanical garden in the University offers a restful and informative stroll at any time of the year. It covers 8 hectares and includes an alpine landscape with gorse, alpine violas and yellow gentians. Visitors can also see samples from more distant highlands like the Carpathians, Pyrenees, Balkans, Caucasus, Andes and Himalayas. Protected rare native plant species can also be seen there.
	Excursions:
	Warnemuende	Warnemuende has developed from a tiny fishing village into a popular seaside resort. There are lots of small shops and quaint bars among the gabled houses in the "Alten Strom". The past and the present are closely linked here. The heritage museum is situated in one of the half timbered houses.
	Westmole	The 500 m long Westmole is at the end of the extended "Alten Strom". It begins at the foot of the lighthouse and can be recommended for a stroll.
	Warnemuende Lighthouse	The lighthouse was built in 1897/98.
	Regional Museum Warnemuende	The Regional Heritage Museum in Warnemuende offers interesting exhibits and information on the history of the seaside resort, the daily life and work of the fishermen and seafarers and the history of the lifeboat and rescue service.
	Bad Doberan Cathedral D-18209 Bad Doberan	The cathedral in Bad Doberan is an impressive Gothic brick construction, built as a monastery church and completed in 1386. The interior furnishings date from the 14th. Century; especially impressive are the altars (carved winged altar, Eucharist altar) and the choir stalls.
	Rostocker Heide	The largest enclosed forest region in North Germany, stretching the length of the coast from Markgrafenheide to Graal-Müritz. It is the ideal region for walking and cycling, with its brakes of beech, oak and alder trees. The coastal highlands cover 275 hectares and were designated a protected area in 1935. They are home to rare flora and fauna and well worth a visit.
	Rhododendron Park D-18181 Graal-Mueritz	The park was laid out between 1955 and 1961. It covers 4,5 hectares and is one of the largest of its kind. The 50 rhododendron species, some of them 10 metres tall, are an unforgettable sight when in bloom. The rhododendron festival takes place here every Whitsun.
	Open Air Museum D-18311 Klockenhagen	Exhibits include typical examples of local building styles from the 17th. to the 20. century, such as different farmhouses, a bake house and a trestle windmill.
	Bernsteinmuseum D-18311 Ribnitz-Damgarten Im Kloster 1-2	Exhibition of the nature, the history and the working of amber. Demonstration workshop
	National Park "Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft"	This national park covers 805 km² and is the largest in the new states. It includes the wide tract of natural coastal terrain on the Darß and Zingst peninsulas, the wide shallows and parts of West Ruegen and the Isle of Hiddensee. Some 687 km², the greater part of the national park, is water. Many typical elements of the Baltic coastal landscape such as high and low coasts, ravines, bays, lagoons, flats, dunes and beaches with their typical flora and fauna can be found in close proximity to each other in the national park. Every Autumn a part of the park becomes host to flocks of cranes and is the largest roost in Europe.
	Other places of interest in neighbouring districts / towns:
	Baltic Resort Kuehlungsborn
	Guestrow
	Fischland-Darss-Zingst Peninsula
	Bad Doberan