# The best sights in Leipzig

Bach, the Monday demonstrations and shopping arcades: Leipzig's highlights according to the city, travel magazines and TripAdvisor.

- 7 votes · 12 items
- Nov 19, 2021 · miriam_wanderlust
- https://even.best/en/l/1863/the-best-sights-in-leipzig

## Top 10

1. **Monument to the Battle of the Nations** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Monumental memorial to the 1813 battle, with a viewing platform.
2. **St Thomas Church** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Where Johann Sebastian Bach worked and is buried.
3. **St Nicholas Church** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Starting point of the 1989 Peaceful Revolution.
4. **Old Town Hall and Market Square** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Renaissance town hall with the city history museum.
5. **Mädler Passage and Auerbachs Keller** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Grand arcade with the cellar from Goethe's 'Faust'.
6. **Bach Museum** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Museum on Bach's life opposite St Thomas Church.
7. **Gewandhaus** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Concert hall of the famous Gewandhaus Orchestra.
8. **Leipzig Zoo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Large zoo with the Gondwanaland tropical hall.
9. **Panometer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Huge 360-degree panoramas by Yadegar Asisi in a gasholder.
10. **Museum of Fine Arts** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Art museum in a glass cube.
11. **Baumwollspinnerei** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Former cotton mill full of studios and galleries.
12. **Old Stock Exchange** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Baroque exchange building on the Naschmarkt.

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