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Aachen is the most beautiful city in the world. Its long history, international flair and its squares and narrow, winding lanes are just some of the reasons why the city enchants visitors time after time. Germany’s westernmost major city is home to 250,000 residents, including more than 50,000 students from all over the world, situated in the border region between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands...

They are not just called „Printen“, but „Aachener Printen“ and they are – in every respect – unique. With remarkable success they persistently resist to all comparisons with gingerbread. In the imperial city more than 4,500 tons of Printen dough is annually produced – once as hard and soft version of the Printe, once with sugar icing or with chocolate, once refined with nuts or almonds...

In the year of 742 B.C. Charlemagne was born as the eldest sun of Pippin the Short and Bertrada. Twenty six years later (768 B.C) he inherited the western part of his father’s kingdom; the other part was given to his younger brother Carloman. Charlemagne used the following 46 years for the realization of his personal life’s work: “to increase God’s realm on earth”. He managed this very successfully, as half of Europe succumbed to his command – more or less voluntarily. Charlemagne experienced the pinnacle of his career when he was crowned “Imperator Romanorum” by Pope Leo III in Rome on the 25th of December 800.  Nobody had been given this title for more than 300 years...

Already at the time of the Celts people settled in Aachen, because here they found hot and healing springs. Still today water is present everywhere in the imperial city in the form of numerous fountains...