CULTURE

FOOD

The bakery is the most traditional kind of food in Aachen. The people accustom to go to the restaurants of the city in the morning to enjoy a delicious coffee and the bakery of the city. The typical food is the sandwich, people say that the sandwich was invented in Aachen because John Montagu IV earl of Sandwich had a big passion for playing cards and his servants were concerned to prepare a food that he could eat while he played cards. Aachen is famous for its delicious beer.

  

MUSIC-FESTIVAL-SPORTS
That city is named the little Europe because it has a big recognition in pop, rock and Metal music industrial. The principal sport in Aachen is the soccer its representative team is Alemannia Aachen that compete in New Tivoli Stadium.
The center of Aachen becomes in a stage musical when the city celebrate the festival Outdoor Open-air in der City - AachenSeptemberSpecial. This is completely free event with four stages set in the most beautiful squares of the city, with local artists, national and also international stars. Numerous styles are presented in the festival as Jazz, Pop, Rock, and Metal.

ART
The more representative art space in Aachen is the Couven-Museum. it is a old house, the house has an interesting collection dedicated to the life of the bourgeoisie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rooms are decorated with furniture, paintings, tableware, ceramic majolica tiles and the way Flemish and ceramic of seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Other important piece or the art in Aachen is Aachen City Hall; it was built on the ruins of the palace of Charlemagne in the year 1353 and Aachen Cathedral that preserves the throne of Carlosmagno.


THE RELIGION
Christianity is practiced

GOVERNMENT
parliamentary federal republic government