Lübeck's Holsten Gate, Castle Gate, the Castle Friary and the "Seven Towers" are but a few of the countless important sights of the medieval trading hub.

At Günter Grass House, Willy Brandt House or the Buddenbrookhouse made famous by Thomas Mann's novel and now home to a literature museum, vistors can trace the footsteps of Lübeck's three Nobel Prize winners.