Alongside a dynamic economy and prolific seats of research and teaching, the region offers its inhabitants and visitors everything that makes life so diverse and worth living.
Three world cultural heritage sites (the Abbey of Lorsch, the Limes, Speyer Cathedral), together with more than 200 fortresses, cathedrals and castles (among them world-renowned places of interest such as the castles at Heidelberg, Schwetzingen and Hambach), bear witness to an eventful past. 15 top-class festivals, 81 theatres, cabarets and other stage venues, as well as over 200 museums, provide for cultural highlights.
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Nature lovers are well served by three nature parks (Palatinate Forest, Neckartal-Odenwald and the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Geopark) covering a total area of 510,000 hectares. A varied regional cuisine, high-class catering and prize-winning vintages from four wine-growing areas (Baden, Bergstrasse in Hesse, Palatinate and Rhine-Hesse) make gourmets' hearts beat faster.
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Sporting highlights such as games at Germany's record ice hockey champions, Adler Mannheim, first division handball (Rhein-Neckar Löwen) and football (1899 Hoffenheim), as well as motor sport on the Hockenheim Ring, lure spectators from far and wide.
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