Kiel is a vibrant city, perfect epitome of elegance, rich in art and culture with spacious architecture, offers captivating Sea side, fun with numerous events, glamorous shopping centers, and pulsating nightlife. Kiel is the significant maritime center of Germany, situated in northern German state of Schleswig Holstein and around 90 km north of Hamburg. Geographical location makes it the vital transport hub of the region, due to Baltic Sea and has the busiest artificial canal, Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal).

Naval city is the populous city of the state with around 2, 40,000 inhabitants. City is economically important, as is the center of submarine construction and high-tech shipbuilding. It is renowned for the numerous world famous research institutes, the Kiel University is the prestigious and oldest university built in 1665. Kiel is the home to the one of the three prominent institutes of marine sciences in Europe, the IFM-GEOMAR.

Trip to harbor side is a sure pleasure, enjoy the boat riding, soak up the nautical atmosphere and experience the heavy traffic of ships and ferries across the harbor, meditating the booming economy of Baltic region. The oldest artifact of the city is the Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas Church) with Geistkamfer (The Ghost Fighter) a mythical sculpture on front of building. This is located on Old Market Square which surrounded by Kleiner Kiel Lake, the Maritime Museum situated here displaying historic vessels, naval paintings and displaying panoramic 3D pictures of harbor, worth to watch. The famous Gorch Fock, the large ship used for training and also for enthralling open ship events. One of the world’s renowned and biggest sailing events, the Kiel Week held in Kiel annually in last week of June, in English it is termed as Kiel Regatta, thousands of boats and ships participate in this event.

The Rathaus (Town Hall) building built in 1911 is the high rising with its 67 meter high tower which gives the panoramic view of the town. The Stadtmuseum (City Museum) preserving the historical architecture and artifacts of 16th century, notable paintings of par-get ceiling is worth to watch.

Summer of Kiel is rich with myriad of exhibitions, musical concerts and festivals. Well acclaimed and famous events include Schleswig-Hostein-Music Festival, Kiel Kunsthalle Art Gallery and Kiel Week. The city beautified with number of lakes like Schrevenpark and Schilksee Lake are particularly famous water side attractions for visitors and locals, offers boating, bathing and magnificent experience of nature and culture.