Ruhr Capital of Culture 2010

The Ruhr area has been chosen to become the Capital of Culture of  Europe for the year 2010.
This is the official video of the event:



Exciting, isn't it??

Tic Tac Toe: Mr Wichtig

I wish I was a german girl in the nineties, so that I would have experienced the golden age of Tic Tac Toe, in my opinion the best rap band ever!
I was thinking about showing you one of their most meaningful and moving pieces, such as "Warum" or "Spiegel" but, since it's summer and yesterday I had the last exam before the holidays... let's go with the silly summer song: "Mr Wichtig!".
Enjoy the sound!

How to prepare a delicious german coffe

On tuesday I was at my boyfriend's bar in Rimini (Italy) and decided to have a break while tasting a wonderful german coffe. Italians usually hate the german coffe, which is actually not very different from the american one, because of the different taste and consistency: it's very light and delicate and you have to serve it in big cups. Not the microscopic italian coffe cups!

But somebody likes it. I do!
During my stay in Munich ( summer 2003) i was forced by my coffe addiction to buy an electrical coffe machine, which became soon my best friend. I continued drinking german coffe for three years, in Italy too. Then my life became too phrenetic to stop and sip a good cup of coffe.
So, overwhelmed by memories, I decided to have a german-coffe-break, like a real german tourist in Rimini.

The preparation is very simple, but it requires a little time, it's okay when you want to relax.

You may take a glass carafe, a teapot full of boiling water and a strange object whose name I actually don't know that contains a paper filter. This strange objetct (do you know the real name of this object?) has to be put on the carafe. Then, you have to put a spoon of coffe powder in the paper filter and slowly pour the hot water in it.

When all the hot water is in the glass carafe, than you can taste the real german coffe!

Germany World Heritage Sites

The UNESCO (United Nations Educationel, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency estabilished in November 1945 in order to contibute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science and culture.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place of either cultural or physical significance that has been chosen for the international program for the common heritage of humanity: the World Heritage Fund. This program has the purpose of catalogue, indicate and protect sites of extraordinary importance, so important that they have been recognized as common heritage of humanity. The sites that are chosen can receive money from the World Heritage Fund.
Actually, Italy is the country with the biggest number of Unesco sites, folowed by Spain and China.

Germany's properties inscribed on the World Heritage List are:

Aachen Cathedral (1978)
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch (1991)
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau (1996)
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (2008)
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl (1984)
Classical Weimar (1998)
Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg (1994)
Cologne Cathedral (1996)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (2000)
Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1987)
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar (2002)
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg (1996)
Maulbronn Monastery Complex (1993)
Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar (1992)
Monastic Island of Reichenau (2000)
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin (1999)
Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski (2004)
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof (2006)
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (1990)
Pilgrimage Church of Wies (1983)
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier (1986)
Speyer Cathedral (1981)
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim (1985)
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen (2004)
Town of Bamberg (1993)
Upper Middle Rhine Valley (2002)
Völklingen Ironworks (1994)
Wartburg Castle (1999)
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square (1981)
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen (2001) Natural
Messel Pit Fossil Site (1995)
The Wadden Sea (2009)

Monastery of Maulbronn (drobnikm )