![]() The Mediapark area is a modern corner of the city. Some little hints remain like the gate of the Rudolf Platz. The city center was surrounded by a series of walls from the Roman and medieval eras. The city hall has a very nice old octagonal tower from the XVth century, rebuilt after the war. Looking West is the new neighborhood of mediapark with its lonely skyscraper and the TV tower Colonius. Some parts have been reconstructed identical, but most of the center is now a modern city which makes the two main pedestrian streets look like a shopping mall. The center has been bombed flat during WWII and calling a part of it « old » is always exaggerated. Looking south is the recognizable shape of the Groß Sankt Martin Church, surrounded by the older part of town. On the right is the Ludwig Museum, a museum of modern art. Looking towards East, on the left of the cathedral roof you can see a part of the train station and the rails crossing the Rhine on the Hohenzollern bridge. As soon as the morning fog started to fade away, I climbed the many stairs of the south tower. Sticky streets and broken glass bottles everywhere.įirst thing you can’t miss arriving in Cologne is the enormous Gothic cathedral which stands right outside the main station. I arrived right after the carnival and the city was still cleaning itself from its joyfully messy festivities. I made a selection, but there are still 58 pictures in this article. So I packed for a one week trip through the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, or at least through a few of its prominent cities outside of the Rhur area. Only 3 hours away from Paris with the Thalys is a corner of Germany I did not have the opportunity to explore until now.
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