Baltic tourism for a better living quality

Relaxing and breathing in lungful of fresh sea air swimming and walking, looking at ships and eating fresh Baltic Sea fish, admiring huge churches or finding out more about the state and its people… Visitors to the Hanseatic city of Rostock and its seaside resort of Warnemünde can do it all.

The inhabitants of the largest town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern enjoy our seaside resort and impressive coastal scenery, Sunday shopping and a fascinating city centre oozing with North German atmosphere. More than one million overnight visitors appreciate these features every year, not to mention one-day visitors who stroll in the fine weather through the city centre and the resort of Warnemünde. From imposing cruisers to spa concerts, from deep-sea fishing to the theatre and New Year spectacle at the lighthouse: our resort on the Baltic Sea offers a variety of attractions. Warnemünde has become one of the most important Baltic ports for international cruise liners. There'll be a good 100 of them in 2006, from club ships to luxury sailing ships.

That's more than 100.000 tourists from Canada, Japan, the USA and Great Britain, bringing the hum of foreign voices to Warnemünde and the city. It is these elegant ships, larger than Warnemünde's fishermen's houses that draw onlookers time and again. Every weekend Warnemünde is packed with a this colourful mixture of locals and foreigners. Strolling around Rostock city center is getting ever more eventful and attractive for pedestrians too. Ancient and modern buildings have grown together harmoniously. Thus the 400-year-old Steintor has again crept towards the medieval city walls. Clinker bricks characterise the architecture of the new "harbour terraces", which fit in well with the historical image of Rostock city harbour. Locals and tourists can enjoy not merely the view over the Warnow river here. Racy sailing boats, passenger vessels, windjammers and museum ships conjure up a maritime atmosphere, particularly during the annual Hanse Sail in August.