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railway, Cologne's main station is located immediately adjacent to the Cathedral, passes within a couple of hundred metres of it. Get off a train in Cologne and you will need no other transport in order to visit the Cathedral.
THE HISTORY OF St PETER'S CATHEDRAL, COLOGNE
Whilst 2008 celebrates the 760th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the current, Gothic, Cathedral, the religious origins of this site are known to date from Roman times. In those times the church that stood here formed the northern edge of the city; to this day the "Old Town" is clustered around narrow streets immediately to the south and literally in the shadow of, the great Cathedral.
The buildings that stood here in the first millennia were naturally rather different from the Gothic edifice so much admired today. From these early Roman times ...
Advantages: Milka...Lindt...chocolate in general Disadvantages: cable car shut in winter
We went to Cologne this December so I could practice my German, we could go to the Christmas markets and we could take some much needed time off work. Actually, scrap that. Those were the reasons we went to Germany. The single reason we went to Cologne in particular was the flight schedules - Tui now fly there from Manchester, and our flights cost less than £70 return including taxes and the credit card fee (alarmingly charged per passenger, not per transaction).
I had been to Cologne before, but not since 1991, which is a decent chunk of my life ago. My companion had never been there, nor anywhere else in Germany for that matter. We booked in September, and had been annoying our mutual colleagues ever since, with tales of the heavily-chocolate-infused fun we were going to have. Now everywhere in Germany has fabulous chocolate, but ...
