It’s Turkish. Kiosk originally means “Garden Pavilion“. Today it’s something else.

A place to buy food on feast days – but not only on those days. A social gathering point. Or a piece of home as city guide Bruno Knopp calls it.

He must know it, since he’s presenting special tours focusing on Kiosks. And there are quite a few in Cologne. One of the places in Germany where the tradition of the Kiosk is still kept up.

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