Beyond history and culture, Cologne is also one of the German cuisine champions. From brewers honorable as age and tradition, with the famous Kolsch beer and the unique city delicatessen, to rich restaurants, you will find more than 3000 distinct regions in the whole city.
Here, the headline is on ethics and quality, but you will also find specialities of international culinary art, at great standards but prices to match. Life here is like food: colorful, amusing, hard to forget and easy to enjoy.
In Cologne the number of monuments, old buildings and other attractions is notable, the entire city is an open-air museum that relies upon you to explore its long and beautiful history.
Here is a list of Cologne tourist attractions that you should categorically see if you visit this city:
Krieler Domchen – in the smallest and oldest remnant of the church established around 900 in Suitbert-Heimbach-Platz, three Carolingian stone monuments remind us of a church that was located in the same place and was destroyed by the Normans.
Roman churches – Cologne is a city of churches. Like no other German city, twenty monasteries and churches of the nuns’ monasteries are positioned in an area limited by the city’s Gothic walls, churches that are among the most famous in Western Europe.
City Hall or Hansasaal was established in 1330, with the Renaissance arch and the tower that was attached later. The building complex sustained heavy damage during the Second World War and went through reconstruction until 1972.
City Gates – Severinstor, Eigelsteintor, Hahnentor, three of the twenty city gates of the Gothic citadel (1180 – 1220) were well preserved and are used today in specific ways. Ulrepforte tower and other renovated sections of the city walls can be seen along the circular boulevard, Sachsenring.
Overstolzenhaus was the home of a Roman patron, used today by the Cologne Media College.
Old town homes / the Fish Market – town houses (XIV-XVII centuries) in and around the Old Market and Martinsviertel district.