yes. we have arrived on the next platform back when the facility was active the air here was very unhealthy to move people and they came here with industrial style breathing up prices. in the region. nine thousand people worked in phoenix east and west now the only people here are tourists like us. by giving that next shows me to the door another symbol of the city. this building embodies structural change in the region it s been turned from an industrial hub into a popular site for the service and creative sectors in what used to be the union brewery rather than beer you ll now find exhibits a museum and art projects. and this i mean.
it s a magnet for tourists to the cathedral it isn t just colognes most visited site it holds the record in all of germany six million visitors every year they d be on to something. you can also go up to the top of the tower. the nicest rooftop terrace in cologne and good weather you can see all the way to bottom the former west german capital you can also see just how narrow the city streets are. and when you re walking around you notice how relaxed everyone is it s crowded and loud but the locals take it in their stride and to protect their chilled out reputation they came up with their own constitution
region to the area known as months. first. will show us around cologne the largest city in north rhine-westphalia. after that will accompany her to dortmund a city and the region best known for its industrial complexes and its obsession with football. the first stop on this special edition of chicken is cologne. to. i m in cologne famous for its cathedral so ryan and of course for its part of
best place to start my tour was the promenade it s sort of mistrust bicycle highway and circles the outskirts of the old town. moonstone may be old but its population is young off the city s three hundred thousand inhabitants sixty thousand our students nearly everyone here writes a bike cycling paths crisscross the city and the direction of signage is excellent . the can see by mocked in the heart of the old. and it s considered one of the most beautiful squares in germany the gabled housing estate back to the days of the hands at a clique. a splendid example of the late gothic architecture st lambada church. the town hall was the site of an important event in the seventeenth century.
a promise not so small by careening route around the old town. there are a cycling streets and a four hundred kilometer network of cycle paths in the months to area alone and we have to allocate a lot of money to expand the network and that s why the also ball. has also won awards for climate protection and its energy policy what have you done to achieve that well i didn t last long as one measure is the change in pension funds for employees and staff in the city of a minister if you have a council consciously decided on diesel and c o two neutral investment or avoiding child labor avoiding businesses that invest in a moment in order to point the way to climate protection and sustainability through know how to cut through that. climate protection has a long tradition in winston since the late one nine hundred ninety s. when we even had a department in the city administration devoted to the climate and energy and we engage the public in discussions on these issues issues such as wind tu