Germany

Pink Hotel, Altenahr, Eifel mountians submitted by Julie-Darksecretz

Capital Berlin

Language German

Currency Euro

In the 1950s, Germany was one of the six founding nations of the original European Economic Community, from which the European Union was eventually to develop.
Franco-German cooperation was central to European
economic integration in the 1980s and 1990s.
The country has famous beer brewing traditions. Beer purity laws dating back to 1516 limit the fermentation ingredients to malted grain, hops, yeast and water. As the birthplace of great composers including Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Germany has made a vast contribution to classical music.