LE JOURNAL BELGIQUE - Your cultural city tour — guided by our app

In the organizer's words:

Exciting and quirky tour through the cultural history of the Belgian Quarter. From a mysterious diary, to Max Ernst, Can, Nico and Warhol, all the way to Hans Nieswandt.

Art-historical highlights in Cologne's city center

• Start and pause anytime

• Self-guided tour

• Free of charge

Become part of the story and uncover everything about the legendary "Journal Belgique", a diary passed on from one artist to the next every ten years - said to be the secret book of a hidden society in the Belgian Quarter.

After an unremarkable history degree, ambition suddenly strikes: you still want to go for a doctorate. The legend of the Journal Belgique, lost during the collapse of Cologne's City Archive, seems like the perfect subject. A secret artistic society, active for over a hundred years right in the heart of the Belgian Quarter? You have to get to the bottom of it!

Embark on a journey through time, the Belgian Quarter, and one of the most mysterious art metropolises of the past hundred years. During your Mindwalk, you'll meet artists, solve riddles, and discover places that only reveal their meaning through a look back into history.

Find the Journal Belgique and piece together the missing fragments. In the end, you decide how the story of the neighborhood continues. It's all in your hands...

With the kind support of Visit Cologne