Town founded in the Middle Ages on the island of ZEALAND overlooking the mouth of the Oresund, the main shipping channel leading to the Baltic Sea. Sweden lies on the far side of the 4 km (2 mile) wide channel. Kronborg Castle - the setting for William Shakespeare's play Hamlet - dominates the town. The castle was built in the 16th century to guard the channel, and to extract tolls from ships heading for the Baltic. Today the town is Denmark's main ferry port for Sweden.
Locals hypothesize that the legacy of Italian blood and culture in Cologne, colonized by the Romans more than 1500 years ago, makes the people more jovial and lighthearted. Cologne is the largest city on the Rhine.
Kolsch is not only the dialect spoken here but, also the name of their own top-fermented beer. There are more than 4,000 pubs, restaurant's and brewery taverns in Cologne.
Unlike many of the world's large cities, Cologne, with a population of over a million, gets better every day, there are more things to do and see, more new and innovative buildings... more
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