Guide to Germany
Must See Germany
- Aachen Dom
- Black Forest
- Brandenburg Gate
- Füssen
- Goethe Haus
- Harz Mountains
- Lübeck
- Leipzig
- North Frisian Islands
- Rhine Valley
- Romantic Road
- Schloss Hohenschwangau
- Schloss Linderhof
- Schloss Neuschwanstein
- Stasi Museum
- Tübingen
- Weimar
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Aachen's main draw is its Dom, with Charlemagne's exquisite Pfalzkapelle (palace chapel) at its core. One of the best-preserved examples of Carolingian architecture, the chapel served, over the course of nearly 600 years, as the coronation church of some 30 Holy Roman emperors, starting with Otto I in 936.
Inspired by Byzantine architecture, the harmoniously proportioned structure consists of an octagonal dome supported by a 16-sided, two-storey ambulatory featuring antique pillars imported from Italy. A colossal brass chandelier, donated by Friedrich Barbarossa in 1165, swings down from the dome. For about four centuries, this was the largest vaulted structure north of the Alps.
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- religious/spiritual, royal, architectural highlight