From Bach to coffee, the GRASSI museum quarter and historic architecture, here are the best things to do in Leipzig, Germany.

The main gathering place for anticommunist protesters in the 1980 s, Leipzig's St. Nicholas Church has a bright, clean, Neoclassical interior.© (Cameron Hewitt, Rick Steves' Europe) Rick Steves ...

Leipzig, a city rich in cultural and musical history, is a must-visit destination in eastern Germany. Known as the home of iconic composers like Bach and Mendelssohn, the city offers landmarks ...

Three decades ago this week, demonstrations against the GDR reached fever pitch, signalling the beginning of the end for the East German communist regime - and it all began with meetings held in a ...

Rick visits the two great cities of Saxony: the capital city of Dresden and Leipzig Saxony, part of the former East Germany, remains a secret to most travelers. Rick visits the two great cities of ...

LEIPZIG LETTER: Twenty years ago, a candlelit procession took the first steps towards liberation LITTLE CHANGES within the walls of Leipzig’s Nikolaikirche, the 12th-century Romanesque church of ...

Oct. 9 is a monumental day in German history. Twenty years ago, the residents of Leipzig took to the streets under the banner 'We Are the People' and sparked peaceful protests that would lead to ...

Johann Sebastian Bach was employed by a Leipzig church when he composed his "St. John Passion" in the 1720s, but like Handel's "Messiah," the music "has a universal appeal beyond denomination or ...

But Vanden Berg said some of Bach's greatest music — hundreds of compositions written for church services, many during his time in the employ of a church in Leipzig, Germany — is lesser-known ...

It was a Leipzig leap of faith: a metaphor for the change to come when the wall came down. It happened just outside Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church, where J.S. Bach wrote his majestic B Minor Mas… ...

In a tiny Leipzig church, Iranian exiles are praying fervently for their distant homeland, a country whose regime is sending out agents to harass them, spy ...