Excavated, fortified city of Homer's King Agamemnon on a hill 30 km (18 miles) south-west of Corinth in the Peloponnese. Mycenae was occupied from 1580 to 1100 BC, when it was destroyed by the invading Dorians, and was the heart of a rich trading kingdom known as the Mycenaean civilization after the site. It was excavated from I 874 by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who uncovered a palace, temples, a citadel and the remarkable royal chamber tombs containing gold death masks. The largest is named the Tomb of Agamemnon, though it was almost certainly of an earlier date than 1200 BC, when he is believed to have ruled. Many of the finds are now in the Athens museum.
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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Cologne is situated on the beautiful Rhine River.