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Cologne: The Melaten Cemetery, Life, Love and Death Tour

4.9  / 51472 reviews
Activity provider:Kölngeflüster
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Guided tour

Cologne: The Melaten Cemetery, Life, Love and Death Tour

Activity provider:Kölngeflüster
4.9  / 51472 reviews
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Enjoy a guided tour of the Melaten Cemetery in Cologne, where love, life, death, city history, and art merge vividly into one.

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Duration 2 hours
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Live tour guide
German
Wheelchair accessible

Experience

Highlights
  • Visit Cologne's largest central cemetery, the former Cologne execution site and leper colony, in the middle of a beautiful park
  • Learn interesting facts and curiosities about historical personalities and admire impressive graves and monuments
  • Experience a place of death, life and love and enjoy the extraordinary flora and fauna in the heart of Cologne
Full description
Wander through Melaten Cemetery in Cologne and see the tombs of the city's most prominent personalities on a walking tour. Immerse yourself in the tranquility and rich history of the large park with a guide. Discover a place of silence embedded in a beautiful park with incomparable flora and fauna in the middle of Cologne. Visit the Melaten cemetery and stroll through the complex, which has an area of over four hundred thousand square meters and around 55,000 gravesites. Enjoy moments of peace and quiet during the guided tour and experience how close love, death, and suffering as well as art culture are to each other. Learn interesting facts and curiosities about historical personalities and impressive tombs and monuments and visit the former "Leprosenanstalt".
Includes
  • 2-Hour Guided Tour
  • Cemetery fee
  • Barrier-free

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Meeting point

Meet at the entrance to Melaten Cemetery in Aachener Straße, opposite house no. 251.

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What to bring

  • Comfortable shoes
  • Weather-appropriate clothing

Not allowed

  • Pets (assistance dogs allowed)

Know before you go

  • This tour is only offered in German
  • Weather-compatible clothing and appropriate footwear is recommended
  • Children under 12 years of age take part in the tour free of charge
  • The Melaten guided tour is a barrier-free tour
  • The tour will take place even if it rains (except for severe weather warnings)
  • No dogs allowed

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Overall rating

4.9 /5

based on 1472 reviews

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  • Value for money
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  • Service
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  • Organization
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GetYourGuide traveler – GermanyOctober 6, 2023 – Verified booking
Eine sehr interessante und unterhaltsame Führung. Ich hatte zu keiner Zeit das Gefühl vom Tod umgeben zu sein. Der Guide hat die Toten auf großartige Weise zum Leben gebracht und ihre Geschichten erzählt. Auch der Besuch des Grabes der Körperteile war sehr besonders! Kann ich empfehlen!
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GetYourGuide traveler – GermanyOctober 5, 2023 – Verified booking
Die Tour war wirklich sehr interessant! Unser Guide Petra hat in gewohnt lockerem kölschen Akzent viel interessantes und wissenswertes über den Friedhof und über Köln selbst erzählt. Sie hat immer ein bisschen Witz, aber auch die notwendige Ernsthaftigkeit eingebaut.
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GetYourGuide traveler – GermanyOctober 2, 2023 – Verified booking
Es war eine sehr schöne Führung quer durch den Melatenfriedhof. Harry hat uns gezielt an die verschiedensten Grabstätten geführt und wusste zu jedem Grabmal genauere Informationen. Wir hätten noch länger mit ihm laufen können. Auch über die Entstehungsgeschichte des Friedhofs wusste er bestens bescheid. Es wurde auf jede Frage eingegangen und nichts war ihm zu viel. Beim nächsten mal in Köln werden wir wieder eine Führung machen, denn zu sehen gibt es hier unendlich vieles.
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