Festival to celebrate completion of Cologne Cathedral

After 632 years of construction

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The project to construct “the most perfect cathedral” began ambitiously in 1248. Only in October of 1880 was this goal reached: Cologne Cathedral was complete, and the world hadn’t gone under! To celebrate this massive event of national importance, Kaiser Wilhelm I held a pompous parade around the Cathedral not just once, but twice…