On the 11 November, up to 70,000 carnival revellers will come together on Heumarkt square to celebrate the opening of the new carnival season.

Our Cultural Programme, which takes place three times a week in summer, also included some of those events and activities not to be missed in a good Cologne summer. Among them were barbecue parties and picnics in the park, visits to the open air cinema by the river Rhine and to the rooftop of the Cologne Cathedral, and our popular walking tours of Cologne.