Every year, in the six “crazy days” before Lent, over a million costumed revelers take over the streets of Cologne in a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages.

Cologne kicked off its Carnival season at 11:11 am on Tuesday, with thousands of people gathered in bright sunshine. The first costumed revellers appeared in the western German city in the early ...

Alaaf! Carnival in Cologne is something every visitor, tourist, and business traveler to Germany should plan to experience. Alaaf! Carnival in Cologne is something every visitor, tourist, and business ...

Carnival celebrations in Germany kicked off on Thursday as huge costumed crowds began cutting loose amid tightened security, especially in the twin Carnival capitals of Cologne and Dusseldorf. By ...

COLOGNE, Germany — At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off their ...

Beer-drinking tourists and locals in colourful costumes are celebrating the week-long street carnival in Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz, Germany every year. Beer-drinking tourists and locals in ...

The group, whose German-language initials stand for “Cologne kippah heads,” took the initials in honor of a troop excluded by Hitler’s party. (JTA) — Seven decades ago, the Nazis banned Jews from ...

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