German Culture Site
	Francine McKenna BellaOnline's German Culture Editor

Chocolate Museum in Cologne, Germany
Cologne´s Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum, the world´s largest and most comprehensive chocolate museum. A futuristic building, designed as a boat moored alongside the River Rhine, it is an inter-active museum where you can visit a mini sub-tropical forest with cocoa plants, learn about chocolate history, and watch as a chocolate bar begins life as cocoa beans and ends up ground, processed, molded and wrapped in silver foil.

Germany's Prehistoric Solar Observatory
Solstice was celebrated as an important seasonal midpoint by the pre-history agricultural civilization which created Germany's Goseck Circle. And from Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to Midsummer and Litha, festivities of many faiths and cultures are still held near winter and summer solstices.

Germany's Romantic Road
It is a spectacular journey into a world from the past, through picturesque scenery and historic medieval towns Germany’s "Romantische Strasse", the Romantic Road, showcases culture in all its forms, from art and architecture to food and wine.

Germany's Ruhr Valley - The Ruhr Metropolis
Germany's rejuvenated Ruhr Valley has an industrial history that reaches back 750 years, and a revitalized metropolis of 53 towns and cities which has been a "European Capital of Culture". A tribute honoring the way the entire region emphasizes European cultures, and the links connecting them.

The Dutch Quarter, Potsdam, Germany
It is a living open air museum, and was built in the mid-18th Century just outside Germany´s capital Berlin, far away from the Netherlands-German border. A little piece of Holland, ´The Dutch Quarter´, 134 Dutch styled homes, a community for artisans from Holland, set amongst the opulent palaces and parks of Potsdam.