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Cologne holidays

May 2024

  • The Cathedral, the Rhine and the Hohenzollern rail bridge shape the cityscape of Cologne.

    48 hours in Cologne, Germany’s most laid-back city

    Cologne cathedral, Europe’s biggest collection of pop art and vintage shops are all less than four and a half hours from London by train

May 2023

  • Malmöfestivalen Timbuktu från taket

    Five European city breaks for art and culture on a budget

    From classical opera in Kraków to outdoor sculpture in San Sebastián, here’s where to find great art, music and film without breaking the bank

December 2019

  • Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne, view to lighted Hohenzollern Bridge and Cologne Cathedral by night<br>Illuminated Cathedral and Hohenzollern Bridge on Rhine River at night, Cologne. Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia, Rhine River, Germany.

    A local's guide
    A local’s guide to Cologne: 10 top tips

    Vintage shops, great bars, buzzing squares and art on tap, there’s a lot more to Cologne than its iconic cathedral and railway bridge

October 2019

  • Leie river bank in Ghent, Belgium, Europe.<br>Picturesque medieval buildings overlooking the “Graslei harbor” on Leie river in Ghent town, Belgium, Europe.

    Go loco: top 10 autumn city breaks in Europe by train

    With the crowds gone but the cultural scene buzzing, autumn is perfect for a European break. And our pick of destinations in five countries are reachable by train in less time than you might imagine

April 2019

  • The Rhine at Cologne, and the city’s cathedral.

    Ode to Cologne: A German city full of views and brews

    Gothic architecture, modern art and ‘singing beer’ give this cultural city its liberal atmosphere

July 2016

  • Cologne, Germany aerial view over the Rhine River.<br>DGXM77 Cologne, Germany aerial view over the Rhine River.

    Why I love …
    Krautrock author David Stubbs on the pioneering music of Cologne

    The German powerhouse is a strong brew of artistic innovation, electronic music and beer-filled mayhem

June 2012

  • Sounds of Europe
    Sounds of Europe: Cologne street life - video

    The third of our street music films visits Cologne. Follow Coma, DJs and producers Georg Conrad and Marius Bubat from Ebertplatz park through Agnesviertel to their studio in Ehrenfeld, stopping for pizza at Pizzeria il Futuro in Kalk

March 2011

  • Benji in Cologne

    TwiTrips: Twitter trips
    LIVE: TwiTrip to Cologne

  • Benji Lanyado TwiTrips

    TwiTrips: Twitter trips
    Coming soon: TwiTrip to Cologne

September 2009

  • Place du Général de Gaulle

    Top city breaks by rail

    You can get to some of Europe's finest towns by train in no time at all. Annabelle Thorpe suggests the top choices for every taste

March 2009

  • Collapsed cologne archive

    First person
    Why did the Cologne city archive collapse?

    Bettina Schmidt-Czaia, director of the destroyed Cologne archive, on reassembling Germany's history

October 2008

  • In the picture

    At the Cologne Fine Art and Antiques Fair, 80 galleries will present works from across two millennia

June 2008

  • Gary Merrill on a train

    Great journeys
    Great train journeys: beer and boxing from Cologne to Moscow

    In the first installment of his three-part overland adventure from Cardiff to Taiwan, Gary Merrill drinks Kölsch on the steps of Cologne cathedral, shares a cabin with a young boxer and breaks bread with a lawyer from Volgograd

May 2006

  • A historic brew

    Tom Lutz surveys the options for football fans heading to World Cup host city Cologne - from its multi-layered history to its beer and sausages.

February 2005

  • Instant weekend

    Cologne

July 2003

  • Dom roamin'

    Cologne's 750-year-old cathedral towers over the city, but with chocolate to scoff and Birkenstocks to buy, Polly Curtis suggests how to escape its shadow.

October 2001

  • Feet on the ground

    Nervous about flying after September 11? Debbie Davies suggests five top European destinations - all just a train ride away

March 2000

  • Rhine and dine

    The cathedral city is a past master at pulling in the tourists but now it's also vying for the media set.

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