Melatenfriedhof
Park-like nineteenth-century cemetery of ornate mausoleums along a row locals call Millionaires' Alley.
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This guide to Melatenfriedhof in Cologne finds a plain headstone reading only Farina, wedged among the marble angels of Millionaires' Alley. It follows Johann Maria Farina, who built one of Cologne's great fortunes not from steel or coal but from a scented alcohol he mixed in 1709 and named eau de Cologne, and the rival, Wilhelm Muhlens, who hired an actual Farina relative to sell a competing bottle under the family name. For decades the two families fought it out in court over who could use the name Cologne itself had given the world.
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