The Hotel Ernst am Dom has a total number of rooms 142. Facilities are individual designed for a tasteful stay and modern technical equipment and traditional ambience found here a perfect symbiosis. Rooms are spacious and are comfortably furnished with high-quality fabrics and offer mini bar with free drinks, hairdryer, Wi-Fi internet access, fax machines, air conditioning and international satellite TV.

The property has 145 years of tradition and elegance and guests will find a number of amenities. The philosophy of the hotel is “Your individuality is our strength” and here guests will find cozy wellness options completed using modern quality materials. There is a piano bar, a health club offers gym and sauna, and Studio de Beauté, as well as meeting and business facilities. Exotic Asian dishes are available in the stylish taku restaurant and innovative French cuisine is served in the classically furnished Hanse Stube restaurant. The hotel is honored with numerous awards. For example, the classic “Schlummer Atlas” awarded the Excelsior Hotel Ernst as “Hotel of the Year 2010″.

Situated in the middle of the Old Town of Cologne, the Hotel Im Wasserturm is a unique luxury hotel placed in a history 11-story brick water tower. Close to Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne Cathedral and Koeln Arena, this is a unique boutique hotel that guarantees one of a kind experience. Exclusive and unique its building used to be the biggest water tower in Europe which makes it one of the most unusual hotels in Germany.

The entrance hall of this outstanding 5-star hotel is 11 meters high which makes an enormous impression on every guest. Classified as a heritage site, the Hotel Im Wasserturm was designed by Andrée Putman and you will find an extraordinary interior design of timeless modernity behind its 130 year-old walls. The interior offers a unique glass, wood and brick design, full of rich textures and curvaceous furniture. There are 90 comfortable rooms situated on ten floors that offer everything you would expect from a top-class hotel. All rooms at the hotel feature satellite TV, Wi-Fi and a private bathroom equipped with bathrobes, and slippers, mini bars, air conditioning, in-room safe and voicemail

Many people have heard about Dada art movement but few realise that it originated in the Niederdorf in Zurich in 1916, in partnership with Cabaret Voltaire. The house was preserved and reopened in 2002 to the public as a musem. However last summer its cafe was turned into a bar and Duda was born. The name of the cafe is a play on words coming from Dada and the German for ‘you there’. It’s a pity because few people know about the bar, as you have to walk through the museum shop – great for unusual gifts – to get to it, and because Duda is not allowed to advertise itself on the historical facade.

The management team is aspiring to create a local meeting point, which is missing in Zurich’s city centre, with a comfy lounge corner and good music and the cheapest (and exclusively local) beer in town! The stylish bar, made from what looks like copper, and the original architectural features, make this bar one of a kind in Zurich. I’m very happy that the funding to keep it going was secured this autumn, and I hope they’ll receive their funding again in 2011! So visit it while it lasts.

Already, the “Mouvement Dada” had spread to other cities. In Berlin, Cologne, New York, Paris, Holland, Belgium, Russia, Japan was more Dada headquarters and branches arose or in the creation, in the spirit of Dadaist bon mots “Dada never rests. Dada proliferates.

Kolumba Museum is situated in Cologne, Germany, a city that was almost completely destroyed in World War II. Nowadays the museum houses the Roman Catholic Archdiocese’s collection of art which spans more than a thousand years. Some of the historic fragments around the museum includes pieces of the Gothic church and stone ruins from the Roman and medieval periods.

The facade of grey brick integrates the remnants of the church’s facade into a new face for the contemporary museum. Articulated with perforations, the brick work allows diffused light to fill specific spaces of the museum.  As the seasons change, the”mottled light shifts and plays across the ruins,” creating a peaceful ever-changing environment.

The museum includes 16 different exhibition rooms and, at the heart of the building, a secret garden courtyard – a quiet and secluded place for reflection. The bricks are handcrafted by Petersen Tegl of Denmark.

This summer, almost in every emerging neighborhood in Leipzig, Germany the streets were buzzing of artists and students. Early 20th-century cinema turned intimate music hall, Mohna. Outside, on Wolfgang-Heinze-Strasse, three heavily pierced student-types in studded jackets were hurrying toward Conne Island, one of Leipzig’s better-known music venues. Therefore, Leipzig does call itself the City of Music.

This year is the 325th anniversary of Bach’s birth, and Leipzig is celebrating with concerts, festivals and the reopening of the newly designed Bach Museum. In the last two years, this city of about half a million residents — many of them students at the 600-year-old University of Leipzig — is where some of the most innovative house and techno music is being created.

The music scene there is as good as those in other, bigger cities like Cologne or Berlin, but everyone knows each other. It’s not commercial. It seems the music scene there is still very untouched by cynicism and speculation and people really just want to enjoy good live music.

But only in recent years has Leipzig become a desirable place to live and visit. A few decades ago, it was a city to be avoided: a polluted town known mostly for its book publishing industry and the trade fairs that have been held there since the Middle Ages. Now the surplus of abandoned factory buildings, which had produced mechanical parts for products like watches and cars, and textiles, is a boon, attracting creative entrepreneurs, artists and musicians who have reclaimed the old spaces. There’s an underground party or event in an abandoned factory or building every weekend. Getting there: Leipzig is just over an hour from Berlin by train. Tickets are about 43 euros, or $52 at $1.20 to the euro.

Cologne is a very modern city in Germany, where three sharp objects have a commanding influence on the skyline, from nearly every corner in the city. One of them is the ornate cathedral, which looms over low-rise buildings and fanning arteries. The ancient city of Cologne creates a vanish of brutal modernity, but while scratching Cologne’s surface reveals a vibrant center of art and design.

Cologne used to be, after New  York, the second most important art city in the world, but that was 15 years ago. Nowadays a lot of it has been taken over by London, Los Angeles and Berlin. Cologne is also described by its cathedral more or less. You can’t really not go there, but once you step into for a half an hour you will understand.It’s good to check out one of the Romanesque church, of which there are 12 in Cologne. From a historical point of view they are quite pure and more important from the cathedral.

But the most spectacular buildings at the moment are the Kolumba Diocesan Museum and Renzo Piano Peek & Cloppenburg department store (up in the picture), which is made of 6, 800 single glass slabs, all of different sizes. It’s a shopping area that is women part. Other interesting place for me is a shop called Sign of the Times specializes in’50s and ’60s furniture. The shop offers extremely fascinating items. There’s also a very special shop called o.k. Versand. There you can buy objects from China, India and Bulgaria.

In conclusion I would say that Cologne is very proud city with fantastic history of art and art collectors. But today many people are moving away, so Cologne must be very careful in the near future. Good luck..!

Cologne, Germany, with its one million inhabitants, is the largest city in northern Rhineland. It is situated in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia, in a wonderful landscape of castles, villages and hills, covered with forest and vineyards. The city stands on the banks of the river Rhine and some of the best views of the city can be had directly from the river.

Apart from its exceptional intrinsic value and the artistic masterpieces it contains, Cologne Cathedral testifies to the enduring strength of European Christianity. The world feels at home in Cologne, where people meet for a Klsch, a chat or simply a laugh. Life in Cologne is uncomplicated and vivacious. Coutances Cathedral, the spectacular Gothic interior, looking toward the crossing and chancel, showing three vertical stages of the nave- arcade, triform gallery and clerestory windows. The most striking thing about the cathedral is it’s size, it dominates the center of the city, it is also Germany’s largest cathedral. The exterior of the building is perhaps the finest part, it is Gothic to the very core and everything points upwards, the massive towers were the largest building in Europe until the completion of the Eiffel.

One of the most interesting things about cathedral Koln is just how long it took to complete it. The construction initially started in 1248 but due to multiple halts in building, it took over six hundred years before the cathedral was complete. Construction stopped completely on the cathedral in the 16th century, and the city persecuted both Jews and Protestants during this time. In the 19th century Cologne was one of the most important cities in Prussia, and the Prussian royalty supported the completion of the cathedral starting in 1861. However, every year thousands of visitors come to see its main attraction – the magnificent twin-spired cathedral ,which got the title of a World Heritage site in 1996. What many tourists don’t know is the fact, that Germany’s biggest cathedral was one of the few historic buildings which survived the bombs on Cologne Germany during the Second World War. In 1943 the Cathedral was heavily damaged by bombing and in 1996, UNESCO admits the Cathedral in the list of World Culture Heritages as a “masterpiece of Gothic architecture.”