What to expect
Renewed urban intellectual center with lively bars, trendy boutiques, and stimulating cafés
When to go
Easter week for St. Thomas's Boys Choir's celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach's music
What to do
Boutiques on Madlerpassage, S.S. exposé at Museum in der Runden Ecke, people watching on Peterstrasse
Local colour
Mass at Thomaskirche--where Bach, Wagner, Mozart, and Mendelssohn have all performed
Don't miss
Weaving through art-nouveau arcades to Auerbachs Keller--made famous in Goethe's
FaustDon't forget
Much around town has been newly built due to total destruction during W.W. II