Düsseldorf audiotours

Dusseldorf received its city charter on August 14, 1288, following the Battle of Worringen, in which the Counts of Berg defeated the Archbishop of Cologne. The rivalry with Cologne, which lies 45 kilometres to the south, has been going ever since and shows no signs of resolution. Locals will tell you that money is earned in Dusseldorf, administered in Berlin, and spent in Munich. They say it with the satisfaction of people who find their own city underrated.

The Königsallee, a boulevard bisected by a canal, carries the highest retail rents in Germany.

In the Immermannstrasse neighbourhood, roughly 11,000 Japanese residents have created one of the largest Japanese communities in Europe, with restaurants, bookshops, and supermarkets that have been serving the community since the 1960s. The city hosts 400 advertising agencies, four of Germany's largest trade fair shows, and a Baroque palace at Benrath that you can reach by tram in twenty minutes from the centre.