A gateway to Germany from the west
Cologne could be a good place to base yourself if you’re going be travelling around the country by car Read more

Cologne Hauptbahnhof, or main station, is one of Germany’s busiest railway stations. It is located directly next to the city’s principal landmark Read more

Cologne-Bonn Airport (Flughafen Köln/Bonn) is one of Germany’s largest airports Read more

At 157 metres, Cologne Cathedral is the third tallest church building in the world. From 1880 to 1888 it was the tallest building in the world and it remains the world’s largest Gothic cathedral Read more

Cologne operates an urban light rail network made of lines running both underground (U-Bahn) and on the surface (S-Bahn). Read more

One of my favourite stadiums in Germany, the RheinEnergieStadion is a proper football ground, with four good-sized, steep stands, a rectangular shape and no running track.

Müngersdorf stadium
The first stadium here bore the name of this part of Cologne: Müngersdorf. Read more

German championship winners:
1962, 1964, 1978 Read more

With a population of about a million, Cologne is Germany’s fourth largest city Read more

1. FC Köln (First FC Cologne) was not formed until after the Second World War. In the pre-war years, there had been several clubs in Cologne Read more