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Holiday Inn Koln Bonn Airport
Waldstrasse 255
Cologne, 51147 DE

Express by Holiday Inn
Echternacher Strasse 4
Troisdorf, 53842 DE

Airport Hotel
Waldstrasse 216
Cologne, 51147 DE

Mercure Koeln Airport 3
Hauptstrasse 369
Koeln, 51143 DE

Mercure Aachen Europaplatz
Am Europaplatz
Aachen, 52068 DE

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ABOUT COLOGNE

It's said that natives of Cologne who live elsewhere always feel homesick. Visitors to the city will soon understand why. Germany's oldest metropolis, which, of course, gave its name to Eau de Cologne, offers a mix of magnificent Romanic churches, the latest in modern architecture, busy shopping streets and world-famous museums. And we haven't even mentioned the carnival.

Visitors to Cologne will find a modern media city with historic roots. Cologne is the oldest of Germany's large cities and the impressive outline of its cathedral, a Gothic masterpiece and the most visited building in Germany, towers over all the city's other buildings. The cathedral, which was started in 1248, was one of the most ambitious building projects of the Middle Ages and is still one of the largest cathedrals in Europe. The city began life as a Roman colony, hence the name Colonia, which later became Cologne or Köln in German.

Today Cologne is a metropolis in all senses of the word, both in terms of its size and the attractions it has to offer. It is a centre for the arts with many galleries and innumerable large international trade fairs. The city's skyline is dominated by the cathedral and twelve Romanic churches, as well as by five large radio and television buildings. Many printing firms and newspaper companies are based in Cologne, which is one of Europe's most important media cities.

Visitors will find that the majority of the sights, restaurants and nightclubs in Cologne are to be found in the city centre, in the old town or Altstadt, alongside the ring road around the city and in the Severin district to the south. Cologne's location on the Rhine makes it the perfect starting place for romantic trips down the river.

Amongst the more modern architectural sights, the neo-Gothic building on Glockenstrasse is the most popular with visitors. This is where the city's most famous product, Eau de Cologne 4711, was originally made.