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The city of Bonn is the political, cultural and scientific center of the Rhine, and has a history dating back 2000 years. Today it is home to many political and diplomatic institutions. Bonn is located in the Rhineland of Germany between the Siebengebirge hills and the Eifel.

Beethoven's birth house in BonnLudwig van Beethoven is the most famous son of the city of Bonn. The City of Bonn hosts the Annual Beethoven Festival to celebrate the great composer who was born here.

Beethoven's birthplace, the Beethoven House (Beethoven-Haus) (515 Bonngasse no.20 today), includes the room in which the musical maestro was born. The house contains a museum and herein is a collection of thousands of original documents, musical instruments, and personal belongings of Beethoven. In the World War II, buildings all around the famous house were flattened by bombs, but Beethoven's house survived.

The Church of St Remigius is where Beethoven was baptized on Dec 17, 1770. The future Digital Beethoven House project will be a digital library, highly innovative pilot project, for the digitizing of colored musical handwritings. There is also The Beethoven Monument, a large statue of Bonn's most important son, which stands in the centre of a small flowerbed in front of the Main Post Office, on the Muensterplatz.

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