Unique natural and cultural landscape in Europe; 1,000 km of water ways; flat areas: 10% forests with more than 12,000 different kinds of animals and plants; park-like appearance due to many woodlands, meadows and fields of smaller dimensions; lakes: lakes Schwieloch, Groß Leuthener, Neuendorf, Köthen, Mochow, Briesen as well as  Peitzer Teichlandschaft

• Lübben:
  Lübben palace with coat of arms hall, Paul-Gerhardt-church
• Lübbenau:
  Saint Nikolai church, exhibitions of the biosphere reserve, regional museum
• Burg:
  Bismarck tower (observation tower), exhibitions of the biosphere reserve
• Vetschau:
  stork centre, 'double church' in Vetschau
• Raddusch:
  Slav castle
• Luckau:
  local history museum, town wall, historical town centre
• Langengrassau:
  "Höllberghof"
• Straupitz:
  Schinkel church, original, working linseed oil mill, Johannis market, Michaelis market
• Schlepzig:
  Agro-historical museum, exhibitions of the biosphere reserve
• Peitz:
  technical monument 'Hüttenmuseum', fortress tower, ponds
• Lehde:
  regional museum for the Spreewald area with exhibitions in the open-air museum in Lehde, farmers' house and cucumber museum
• Calau: so-called 'Calau Switzerland'
• Cottbus:
  national theatre in Cottbus (Art Nouveau building), 'Spreeauen' park
• Branitz:
  Fürst Pickler's Branitz park and palace in Cottbus

• 400 000 – 20 000 BC: during the Ice Ages masses of glaciers lifted the land, snow water formed the Berlin-Baruther glacial valley
• around 8 000 BC: first traces of settlement from the Stone Age
• around 1 200 BC: larger village communities develop
• 7th until 8th centuries AD: Slav settlement
• 1304: Brandenburg purchases the  Lausitz region
• 1618-1648: during the devastating Thirty Years' War the population searches for refuge in the difficultly accessible Spreewald region
• mid 19th century: open-cast soft coal mining starts in the Lausitz region
• 1945: the towns of Cottbus and Lübben are almost completely destroyed towards the end of WW II
• 1950-1974: new artificial lakes are supposed to prevent future floods respectively droughts; strong population increase because of power stations in Lübbenau and Vetschau

• Boat trips
• Water hiking
• cycling
• camping and holidays around the lakes in the Spreewald region
• holidays in the countryside
• conference tourism in Cottbus
• event tourism