Modern office blocks and old houses, Cecilienallee, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany.
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Culturally, Düsseldorf is known for its academy of fine arts (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Gursky), its influence on early electronic music (Kraftwerk) and its large Japanese community. As a city by the river Rhine, Düsseldorf is a stronghold for Rhenish carnival celebrations. Every year in July more than million people visit the city's Largest Fair on the Rhine funfair. The seventh most populous city in Germany by population within city limits, Düsseldorf is one of the country's five global cities. The Mercer's 2009 Quality of Living survey of cities with the highest quality of life ranked Düsseldorf sixth worldwide and first in Germany.
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Location: Cecilienallee, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany.
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Keywords: architecture, buildings, cities, design, duesseldorf, europe, european, german, houses, modern, north, office, offices, park, parks, rhein-ruhr, rheinpark, rhine, rhine-ruhr, sky, towns, tree, trees, westphalia
