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It's in Germany, so I'd love to go =]

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Kölle(nickname for Cologne in germany)
has a world-famous Cathedral - Koelner Dom(Cologne Cathedral)

http://www.mymym.com/gfx/cologne.jpg

http://acdcjonna.ag.vu/koeln-bei-nacht280901-050.jpg

http://www.bilderbuch-koeln.de/img/7a/58/18593.978x1304xin.jpeg

http://image62.webshots.com/62/1/37/42/498213742PORdvp_fs.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Hohenzollernbr%C3%BCcke_in_K%C3%B6ln.jpg

Within Germany, Cologne is known as an important media center. Several radio and television stations, including Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), RTL and VOX, have their headquarters in the city. Both Pro7 and Sat.1 produce TV shows in Cologne as well. Further, the city hosts the Cologne Comedy Festival, which is considered to be the largest comedy festival in mainland Europe.[1]

In 2005 Cologne hosted the 20th Roman Catholic World Youth Day with Pope Benedict XVI.

The Cologne carnival is a carnival that takes place every year in Cologne, Germany. Traditionally, the "fifth season" (carnival season) is declared open at 11 minutes past 11 on the 11th of November. The Carnival spirit is then temporarily suspended during the Advent and Christmas period, and picks up again in earnest in the New Year. The time of merrymaking in the streets is officially declared open at downtown square Alter Markt on the Thursday before the beginning of Lent. Street carnival, a week-long street festival, also called "the crazy days", takes place between the Thursday (Women's Carnival Day) before Rose Monday and ends on Ash Wednesday. All through these days, "kölsch" folks go out masqueraded. The highlight of the carnival is Rosenmontag, which takes place on the Monday. The typical greeting during the festival is "Kölle Alaaf!", a Kölsch phrase which can be roughly translated as "Long live Cologne!"

Kölsch (Colognian) is a very closely related small set of dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian Central German group of languages. Kölsch is spoken in, and partially around Cologne, in the West of Germany. Kölsch is one of the very few only city dialect in Germany, besides for example the one in Berlin ("Berliner Schnauze").

Have Fun

@the seer, Heilbronn^^