Cologne
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Activities
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Basilica of St. Ursula, Cologne
A ten-minute walk from the Eigelstein-Torburg, this church was built upon the ruins of a Roman cemetery.
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Cologne City Hall, Cologne
Just off Hohe Straße in the centre of Cologne, excavations during its restoration revealed it was constructed on a Roman Praetorium which was the base for the Roman Governors of Germania.
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Farina Fragrance Museum, Cologne
Opposite the city hall, this fragrance museum opened in 1709, making it the oldest still-standing fragrance factory and is the home of the first Eau de Cologne.
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Flora and Botanical Garden, Cologne
This is Cologne’s oldest park, but was originally two separate places.
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Great St. Martin Church, Cologne
In the Old Town, this is one of Cologne’s 12 Romanesque, 12th-century churches.
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Hohe Straße, Cologne
This is one of Cologne’s oldest streets and even in Roman times, was lined with vendors.
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Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne
On the final stretch to the main station is Cologne’s oldest and most famous bridge.
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Kolumba Museum, Cologne
Just off Hohe Straße, this museum is on the former site of the church of St.Kolumba, before it was destroyed in the Second World War.
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Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Next to the Roman-Germanic museum and the Cathedral, this museum of modern art exhibits Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealist works from the classical modernist era to the present day.
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Museum of Applied Art, Cologne
In the centre of Cologne, a short walk from the Cathedral, is this museum, which exhibits 800 years of European craftsmanship, including ceramics, glass and textiles, as well as 5000 years of jewellery, showing the artistic variety of different eras, right up to the 21st-century.
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Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne
A 5-minute walk from the Käthe Kollwitz museum, this is one of the most important anthropological museums in Germany.
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Rheinpark, Cologne
This 400000m2 park on the banks of the river Rhein between the Cologne districts of Deutz and Mülheim was voted Germany’s best park in 2007.
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Roman-Germanic Museum, Cologne
This museum, right next to the Cathedral, is an archaeological site in its own right and exhibits the archaeological heritage of Cologne and surrounding areas from the Palaeolithic period to the Middle Ages.
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Schnütgen Museum, Cologne
A short walk from the St.Maria im Kapitol church, this museum is in the church of St.Cecilia, one of Cologne’s oldest churches.
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St. Gereon Basilica, Cologne
Around a ten-minute walk from the Stadtgarten, this is another of Cologne’s 12 Romanesque churches and is considered the most unique.
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Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
This was Cologne’s first museum, exhibiting masterpieces of medieval to early 20th-century European art.
