Why fly to Friedrichshafen?
Is it a bird…? Is it a plane…? No, it is the Zeppelin that has seen Friedrichshafen soar to fame ever since the high-minded Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin – a retired, Prussian army officer - launched the first giant cigar-shaped airship here way back in 1900. The town’s museum now whisks you through the history, with impressive numbers including the Graf Zeppelin, which breezed around the world in just 21 days in 1929. Should this float your boat, you can take to the skies yourself on a mini Zeppelin flight.But there’s more to Friedrichshafen than monster-sized airships.