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Originally Posted by Anders Franzén
Funny, we had this discussion at work some days ago and Cologne was brought up as unusually ugly. The reason is supposedly because Cologne was not bombed much during WWII. Other German cities are prettier because they were built up with that purpose after being bombed. Cologne has been rebuilt over a longer period of time without any plan of being charming.
I was just 11 years old when I visited Cologne, so I definitely owe it another visit.
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Usually the bombed/rebuilt areas are ugly. Do you mean that sometimes care was taken to make the replacements look like the originals? Some of those have been very successful.