Cologne

thumb|A view of Cologne thumb|The Cologne Cathedral Cologne (German: Köln) is Germany's fourth-largest city (after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich), and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants. Cologne is a major cultural centre, and its University is among the oldest and largest of Europe. Quotes In Köln, a town of monks and bones,And pavement fang'd with murderous stones,And rags and hags, and hideous wenches,I counted two-and-seventy stenches,All well defined, and several stinks!Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,The River Rhine, it is well known,Doth wash your city of Cologne;But tell me, nymphs! what power divineShall henceforth wash the river Rhine? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Cologne; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124. External links Cologne Category:Cities in Germany