Germany’s oldest and most famous university town is renowned for its baroque old town, lively university atmosphere, excellent pubs and evocative half-ruined castle, which draw 3½ million visitors a year Visitors can feel the romatic atmospere, which inspired already worldknown poets in the late 18th and 19th century. You can follow their footsteps and find out where most notable Goethe found his imaginations. But Britain’s William Turner also loved Heidelberg, which inspired him to paint some of his greatest landscapes.