When visitors come to Cologne, it often goes like this: the train rumbles over the Hohenzollern Bridge, past passers-by and a long line of love locks. Upon arrival, it is only a few meters to the republic's most visited monument, the cathedral. A dark, jagged rock of piety and architectural ecstasy that characterizes the city as only the Eiffel Tower otherwise characterizes the metropolis of Paris.

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