Leipzig

Leipzig needs 2 days: St. Thomas Church, where Johann Sebastian Bach was choirmaster for 27 years and is buried, on one day, and the Nikolaikirche, starting point of the peaceful 1989 Monday demonstrations that helped bring down the East German regime, on the other. April-October is best. It's inexpensive by German standards. It was one of Europe's leading music centers for centuries, and the demonstrations that began at its Nikolaikirche grew to gather over 300,000 people by October 1989, a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall.