
A comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 80 fascinating and unusual historical sights in Germany's most historic city: • Religious relics, forgotten fortresses, unexpected sanctuaries, abandoned cemeteries, and little-known museums • From Colonia Agrippinensis and the French occupation to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Third Reich • Napoleon's cemetery, a road beneath the Rhine, the city lighthouse, and where the Red Baron learned to fly • The bones of Saint Ursula, the inventor Konrad Adenauer, bad boy Martin Kippenberger, and the legend of Bishop Maternus • Recommended for visitors to Cologne wishing to discover something a little different, as well as for inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew the city