Monday, July 9, 2012

Gothic Cologne

The house, airport, takeoff, landing and we are in Germany, though in Dusseldorf, it was he who was the starting and end point of our journey. Got luggage, a little time spent searching for rentals and got our car, instead of the promised Volkswagen Passat gave us a Seat Altea XL, the beginning we did povozmuschalis, but in fact it was a great car, place it dofiga, move it was very comfortable.
The first day we had to get to Luxembourg, on the way to come around in Cologne, where we intended to have a snack and a little poshatatsya the city. From the airport to the city center about 60 km, so that an hour later we were already in place.
A. So, hello Cologne. In the background is the famous Cathedral.

Two. On our way we passed the TV tower.

4. The city had seen a large number of bikes of all colors and shades.Having entered the center, spent some time looking for places to park the car, but thank God always hang signs on the parking fee, find one closer to the center, parked the car took the coupons and went to wander around the city.

5,6. Pedestrian zone
Eight. We dined in the restaurant, located inside the little park between the four houses, they form a closed space, which was defeated by a small park. It seems to be 20 meters away from you a wide street, where crowds of people walking, and you sit to eat in peace and quiet, birds singing, waterfalls roar, in general, the beauty. It was very tasty and surprisingly inexpensive.

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10. Next we went to the cathedral, around town you can find a lot of different churches.

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12. As the name implies, Roman-Germanic Museum. Time for him unfortunately we did not have.

13. Cologne Cathedral, a world heritage site. Construction: 1248-1437 gg., 1842-1880 gg. With a height of 157 meters was the tallest building in the world from 1880 to 1884. Ranked third in the list of the highest churches in the world.

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15. After walking around, we went inside the cathedral entrance.

16.17. Inside.

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19. Time was running out and we went to the car, but through the park. The street was perfect weather and there was a lot of people.

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21. The park was a big company guys in red shirts, they are constantly yelling chants in honor of a club. At some point, they began to respond very loudly from the cafe is the same crowd, but in a different color jerseys. For some time they were shouting, and then a crowd of cafe lomanulas to red. Thought to be a fight, and they took the beer and began drinking together, they have what that strange :)

22. St. Martin's Church and the fish market, thanks to Wikipedia, so I did without it.
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24. I looked at the picture and think why I have not thought of it up there and take pictures :)Here's how-to and everything, it's time to go further, we are waiting for Luxembourg. Summarize, Cologne - great city, I wish we spent only a few hours and then everywhere in a hurry, I think, the day it should be allocated to all see. We still come back here sometime.

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