Where You Need To Visit Before You Leave 🌍✈️
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This is a beautiful destination to travel to in the Fine city of Cologne, Germany. This beautiful city was built by the Romans in 38 BC. The hot spots in this city includes the churches, abundance of museums, and uniquely designed neighbhorhoods.
Fun Fact about Cologne
The popular perfrume "eau de Cologne" was created in the beautiful city of Cologne.
Cologne Carnival
This takes place yearly which consists of singers, parades, bands, and many events near the city's bars and clubs. Cologne Carnival is known to be the largest street festival in Europe. On monday, the special event is known as Rose Monday which ties back to the German tribes celebrating daylight and warmth. This was a time when Christianity was becoming popular. Rose Monday is celebrated with Germans dessing up in traditional clothing and floats.
Link to Images: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/rosemontag-2018-celebrated-180212080032173.html
Cologne is known for having its historical museums. This museum depicted above is the Ludwig museum which was taken by the talented photographer @ckellersantos. This museum offers a collection of fine art.
Did You Know?
There is a fragrance museum in Cologne as well. As I stated earlier, the well known cologne Eau de cologne was created in this beautiful city. The entry to get in the museum is only $6! This museum will give you the history of the Eau de cologne along with many different fragances.
The Chocolate Museum 😍😍
For all of you Chocolate lovers out there, this is a must visit! This museum is presented the history of chocolate and provides hysterical showings of commercials from 1920s to now. This by far one of the most attractive museums in Cologne.
Check out there website here for further details: https://www.schokoladenmuseum.de/en/
The Cologne Guide App
Link to Download App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cologne-guide/id421847489?mt=8
Thanks for all for viewing, truly hope I convinced you steemians to go. 😊😊 If anyone has been here, I would love to hear your experience! I think Cologne is worth visiting due to their valuable history such as their chocolate museum and their high-end fragrance cologne which is well known around the world. Thanks for viewing! Would like to know which Steemian would end up traveling here in the near future!
Chocolate Museum by Daniel Farrel: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dfarrell07/5751321657
Link to the chocolate museum's website: https://www.schokoladenmuseum.de/en/museum