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this is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars. Trying to succinctly sum up the character or purpose of any city in the world is probably a fruitless exercise.

But for much of its history, Bonn, Germany was particularly...

The first word that comes to mind is quiet. Unremarkable? Bonn is just a quiet town.

Kind of hard to pin down.

We got hills on one side, the river on the other side.

Generally, it's just a sleepy, quiet,

you know, even quaint little town.

That's Seruse Farovar, and he works for the German international broadcaster, Deutschavella, and he lives in Bond.

Bond has just over 300,000 people. It's on the Rhine River, so it was strategically important during World War II.

And let's not forget Beethoven was born there in 1770.

But he took off in his early 20s for the burgeoning musical capital of Vienna.

Not much happened in Bonn until the end of World War II.

When Bonn was named as the provisional capital of West Germany, it became a city with a purpose.

It was the government seat.

And then, a half a century later, the country was reunified, the Berlin Wall came down, and Germany

decided to move the capital away from Bonn and back to Berlin.

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