The Romans nursed their war wounds and stiff joints in the steaming waters of Aachen's mineral springs, but it was Charlemagne who put the city firmly on the European map. Today, Aachen is still a quintessentially interantional city, not in the least because of its location in the border triangle with the Netherlands and Belgium.
Charlemagne's legacy lives on the stunning Dom, which, in 1978, became Germany's first Unesco World Heritage Site.
Aachen is also the birthplace of the famous Printen, crunchy spiced cookies spiked with herbs or nuts and drenched in chocolate or frosting :)
Charlemagne
Dom
Rathaus
Carolus-Thermen
Printen
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