The most interesting places in the world: Cologne is Germany

City with county rights in western Germany.The colony relics of the Magi were brought from Milan to Cologne 1164r.Dzięki it became an important center of pilgrimage. The 1225r bay Nikolas Verdun has done a wonderful golden boxes designed to store them. Shortly after tem, the 1248r, Archbishop von Hochstadry Cologne Cathedral. The choir was ready 1320r with magnificent stained glass windows, in the fifteenth century was built two floors of one of the towers. In 1560r. were halted construction of the central part of the nave and side. Giant towers reaching 157m high were formed only in the XIX century when the construction of the newly taken cathedral was completed in 1880r. Her style architecture was the adaptation of the Gothic cathedrals French.Though his enormous design gives the impression of an extremely light. Beside reliquary relics of the Magi, which is considered a masterpiece goldsmiths, inside the cathedral is the image of Christ hanging on the cross-the 970r.