Cologne sights

The sea lions are fed in a way fit for the circus, new elephant enclosure. 7000 animals roam around here. The lions and the leopards have a large enclosure and the baboons a climbing rock. The elephant...

A delightful square featuring old gabled houses, beer gardens and fish fountains. Relax in the beer gardens and let your gaze drift over to Groß St. Martin and the Stapelhaus. In the Middle Ages all tr...

Unusually, you will find four whale ribs here. Modelled on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, built on the ruins of the Roman Capitol Temple and consecrated in 1065. This Salic building is consid...

Late-Gothic tower and Renaissance facade. Contemporary sculptors decorated the façade with 124 statues featuring portraits of famous people such as Karl Marx and Heinrich Böll in the course of the reco...

Cinema to listen to: this is a good way to imagine the programme on offer at the Hörspielhaus. However, it is not just a case of inserting CDs and playing them; you can meet authors, composers and pro...

120 bird species, 74 cicada species, 447 beetle species and 148 butterfly species: Finkens Garten is the place to discover nature. Explore, smell, taste and feel nature - this is the main idea behind t...

Panorama restaurant with a clear view in all directions. In combination with a visit to the restaurant, you can enjoy an all-round panorama at an altitude of 70 m with a view all the way to the Siebeng...

The burial chamber: a place of the medieval relic cult. The relics of Saint Ursula are kept in the "Goldene Kammer" of the church. Nowhere else in Cologne does the cult of relics that was in practice i...

It is partly an architectually unsuccessful concrete desert, but the Roncalliplatz is nevertheless an urban communicative meeting point. Pantomimes, pavement painting, street musicians and Cologne's w...