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7 places in Cologne

Alt St. Alban – Ruin and Memorial at Quatermarkt

The war ruin of one of Cologne's oldest Romanesque churches at the Quatermarkt – today a memorial with Kollwitz's ‘Grieving Parents'.

Antoniterkirche

A Gothic Protestant church in the middle of the Schildergasse – Cologne's most visited church after the cathedral, known for Barlach's ‘Hovering Angel'.

Fish-Rider Fountain

A listed 1913 sandstone fountain in Zollstock – showing a boy riding a fish.

Museum Ludwig

20th- and 21st-century art on the Domplatte – home to Europe's largest Pop Art and the world's third-largest Picasso collection.

Opera Fountain

A sculptural mosaic fountain from 1966 on Offenbachplatz in front of the opera – a colourful work of post-war modernism.

St. Andrew's Church, Cologne

A Romanesque-Gothic basilica near the cathedral – burial church of Albertus Magnus, with a colourful stained-glass cycle by Markus Lüpertz.

Pigeon Fountain

An abstract fountain sculpture by Ewald Mataré on the Domplatte – Cologne's first new fountain after the war, made for the ‘cathedral pigeons'.