COLOGNE - GERMANY
We arrived at Cologne on Sunday and we went directly to the housing wich it was very close to the station. we left the suitcases, we installed and we went to the chocolate´s museum walking, this way was also very close. we turn next to the cathedral, but we would go the next day to see it. The chocolate´s museum was fine, we bought much chocolate in the stores and we left , my friends and me, alone at the housing.
The next day, we got up at 7:30 am to leave the room clean . At 9:oo am, we had breakfast and stored the suitcases. We went to visit the cathedral.
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Cologne Cathedral, is an architectural monument in Germany, described by UNESCO as an exceptional work of human creative geniuos.
Cologne Cathedral is one of the world´s largest gothic church in Northern Europe.
The construction began in 1248, with interruptions, until 1880. It is 144 meters long, 86,5 m. wide and its two towers are 157m tall.
during the World War II, the Cathedral suffered four teen hits by aerial bombs. the repairs to the building were completed in 1956.
The design of Cologne Cathedral is Gothic architecture. It was two aisles on either sid, wich help to support one of the very highest Gothic vaults in the world. the quire retains a great many of its original fittings, including the carved stalls, wich is made nose surprising by the fact that napoleon´s troops had desecrated the building. a large stone statue of St. Christopher looks down towards the place where the earlier entrance to the Cathedral was , before its completion in the last 19th century. The Cathedral has twelve church bells, four are Medieval.
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Then we went to eat at Mc Donald´s and we went to shop to buy gifts. We went to our luggage and we went to the station to return to Spain. So I spent very well and I really enjoyed all the trips we made by train.
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