After traveling for a couple of days, they finally reached Göttingen, the city that shared its name with the university. It belonged to the Electorate of Hanover, one of the largest states of the Holy Roman Empire. Unlike the other towns they had passed—where trade and merchants set the tone—this city felt entirely different. Here, the academic atmosphere was unmistakable. Everything seemed to orbit around the university. Even the air smelled cleaner, carrying faint traces of ink, parchment, and the smoke of well-kept hearths instead of the usual marketplace odors.
Francisco looked around the tidy streets and said,"This city is too clean, don't you think? Even Bogotá, when I was there, had some kind of trash."
Catalina nodded."You're right. Maybe there are cleaner places out there, but this is definitely the cleanest city we've seen since we started traveling."
