A walk around this German town will reveal buildings and artwork from the Middle Ages, not to mention scores of traditional beer halls. Cologne is like a three-dimensional textbook on medieval history ...

The German city of Cologne, situated on the banks of the Rhine, is chockablock with churches of historical and touristic interest, including Germany's most visited building, the Cologne Cathedral.

When the railway came to Cologne, they put the station so close to the city's massive Gothic cathedral that the trains on the adjacent Hohenzollern bridge look as though they are about to pull into ...

A walk around this German town will reveal buildings and artwork from the Middle Ages, not to mention scores of traditional beer halls. Cologne is like a three-dimensional textbook on medieval history ...