Stuttgart Hotels

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southern Germany. Stuttgart has a population of 590,497 (June 2008) while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million (2008).and it is sixth-largest city in Germany.The city lies at the centre of a heavily populated area, circled by a ring of smaller towns. This inner urban area called Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million making 'greater Stuttgart' the fourth biggest city region in Germany after the Ruhr Area, Frankfurt, and Berlin. Stuttgart is spread across a variety of hills. Stuttgart has the status of Stadtkreis, a type of self-administrating urban county. It is also the seat of the state legislature, the regional parliament, local council and the Protestant State Church of Wurttemberg as well as one of the two co-seats of the bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Stuttgart is nicknamed the Schwabenmetropole (Swabian metropolis), a reference to the Swabian dialect spoken by the locals.