Also the German landscape is multisided: Swimming in the North Sea, a boat trip on the Rhine or hiking in the Alps. Across the republic there are festivals whose publicity goes far beyond the region: carnival in Cologne, wine festivals in the Palatinate and drinking beer at the Oktoberfest in Munich. Not just in the big metropolises Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne or Munich but also in the smaller cities people from all places of the world are forming the image. The most populous country in the EU is a multicultural society. Culturally, everybody can find something he likes. Studying in the country of poets and philosophers.