The Romans in Cologne
Discover visible and hidden remains of the Roman city wall and parts of antique water pipelines and sewers. Listen to the stories about Agrippina and Poblicius. Walk on an ancient street pavement and look down into a former Roman villa. This walking tour will bring the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium to life. For a more detailed insight this tour could be combined with an interior visit of the Roman Germanic Museum or the excavations of the Roman praetor’s palace (Praetorium).
Cologne in the Middle Ages
A colourful hustle and bustle in the largest German city at that time: you will see churches and former monasteries, the Rhine, market places, the city hall, the festival hall Gürzenich and the former Jewish quarter… places where merchants, craftsmen, patricians and the clergy, but also the outcast, beggars and prostitutes lived and worked. For a more detailed insight this tour could be combined with an interior visit of the Cathedral, a Romanesque church or the city museum in the former arsenal.
Cologne from 1945 to the present days
This tour leads you from the wartime that turned Cologne into a shambles across the post-war situation including the so-called “rubble women” and the reconstruction decades with examples of architecture from the 1950s,1960s and early 1970s to the modern city redevelopment programmes and latest landmarks such as the Triangle-Tower, Kolumba and the former docklands Rheinauhafen.
