City guide
Jena
Jena is a Thuringian university city in the Saale valley built on a precision-optics tradition tied to Zeiss, including one of the world's oldest planetariums. Hills ring the centre, and a large student population gives it a science-and-nature character distinct from nearby Weimar and Erfurt.
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