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Rebuilt houses along the river promenade
view from train, Gross St. Martin in view
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Recently I'm planning to visit Coln in June. I would like to visit the great Dorm. But on some traveling fourms some people said the great Dorm was always under construction so it looked not so beautiful as they thought before.
I just want to know if it's true. If so then I may change my route to other cities in Germany or a castle tour by boat.
Sorry, should be "Dom", not"Dorm". Wrong typing.
Yes it was under construction when I was there a couple of weeks back. But still looks beautiful.
There's a saying in Cologne when working on the Dom finishes, Cologne will come to end, too. Maybe that's why there's been construction going on for the last few centuries.
Right at the Dom there are two wonderful museums, too. It's worth visiting Cologne just for them.
Hi! I think the Dom is very impressive anyway. So if you are interested in having a look at it, you should go! As written before, there will always be some work going on as it is huge. And Cologne has more to offer!
> But on some traveling fourms some people said the great Dorm was always under
> construction so it looked not so beautiful as they thought before.
That can indeed happen, but here's a webcam:
http://www.wdr.de/themen/global/webcams/domcam.jhtml
Right now there's no scaffold to see.
> If so then I may change my route to other cities in
> Germany or a castle tour by boat.
I think you should take a boat tour up river Rhine anyway, i.e. from Koblenz to Rüdesheim.
> Right now there's no scaffold to see.
Uhm, well ... actually there's one.
Well, looking at the webcam I would say that it could have been worse... or?
one week a year the whole city of Cologne goes crazy. It´s Carneval time with party from thursday morning (Weiberfastnacht) until the following tuesday night when the "Nubbel" must burn. 6 nights and days of party.
I did 2 and half nights and day of it and it was a big big FUN!!
We went to Cologne and parked to the closest parking where the christmas market is..underground parking where the catherral is...when we get out from the parking, this was the first thing we saw in celebration of the chistmas season.
Cologne's extensive Stadtbahn tram network not only covers the city and its suburbs, it also stretches as far as neighbouring Bonn.
I used the Stadtbahn in order to visit Bonn as a daytrip from Cologne in July 2006. The following information is correct as of that date:
Stadtbahn #18 makes the journey between Cologne and Bonn Hauptbahnhof. I actually caught this tram at Mulheim Wienerplatz station, close to my hotel, and it stopped at Cologne Hauptbahnhof 10 minutes and half a dozen stops later.
The journey from Mulheim to Bonn took 70 minutes. However, the journey between Cologne Hauptbahnhof and Bonn Hauptbahnhof is approximately 1 hour.
Tickets (price category 4) can be purchased from the machines at all Stadtbahn stations and must be validated on board the tram. The cost of a one-way ticket is 6.10 Euros.
The journey between Cologne and Bonn includes stops at Bruhl and Bornheim as well as dozens of smaller suburban stations.
It would be quicker to catch a train rather than the Stadtbahn between Cologne and Bonn, but I think it would also be more expensive.
The 'Bastei' (rather pricey!), the 'Walfisch' near the river south of the cathedral near Great St. Martin's Church and the 'Stapelhaus'. The 'Bier Esel' (famous for its mussel dishes), 'Paeffgen' pub, 'Em goldene Kappes' in the suburb of Nippes, the 'Oasis' restaurant across the Rhine from where you have a wonderful view of Cologne. Don't forget 'Em Koelsche Boor' on the 'Eigelstein street', near the Eigelstein City Gate with the Cruiser 'Koeln' life boat from WW I displayed outside. Except for the 'Bastei' where the menu is international/gourmet, Cologne specialties include 'Halve Hahn', 'Rievkoche', 'Aetzesupp met Speck', 'Koelsche Kaviar', all washed down with a few glasses of 'Koelsch' beer.
The best known monument in the city is undoubtedly the Hohen Dom zu Köln. It has two spires of 157 metres height that can be seen throughout the city.
Building this cathedral has taken 632 years. The reason is that, in the 16th century (I believe) the construction works came to a standstill and it wasn't until the 19th century that they restarted to build. It then still took 38 years before the cathedral was finished.
The Dom is especially known because it holds the sarcophagus with the relics of the Holy Epiphany which date from the 13th century.
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