British Airways flights to Stuttgart land at Stuttgart Airport, eight miles south of the city centre. After Stuttgart flights land, it's an easy S-Bahn train ride direct into town, taking 25 minutes. After your Stuttgart-bound flight, stretch your legs in the huge Castle Gardens, the city's lungs.
After flights to Stuttgart Airport you'll find that train travel is the easiest and most inexpensive way into Stuttgart's city centre, Mitte. The S-Bahn connects Stuttgart Airport to Stuttgart's main train station in Mitte in about 15 minutes. Taking a taxi after your flight to Stuttgart will take slightly longer and is more expensive, but you might get a better glimpse of Stuttgart's surrounding countryside.
When your flight to Stuttgart lands, hop straight on the train through the Württemberg region's vineyards to the medieval seat of kings. Wander around the tidy lawns of Stuttgart's 19th-century Castle Gardens, once part of the nearby Baroque New Palace. If you love cars, take a flight to Stuttgart to admire its proudest exports at the Mercedes-Benz Museum and Porsche Museum. Sample Stuttgart's regional cuisine, like Swabian spätzle pasta or linsenteller - lentils and sausages. Before your return flights from Stuttgart, pick up leather goods, jewellery and fashions from boutiques along Stuttgart's Calwer Strasse, or hidden-away shops in Stuttgart's old Bohnenviertel district.
