Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Speyer Cathedral in the southwest of Germany, a basilica with four towers and two domes, was founded as a flat-ceiling basilica by Konrad II in ...

Rare fossils in the old quarry at Messel offer a tantalising glimpse into the past Credit: Alamy Day five, fix and seven — Lorsch Abbey, Speyer Cathedral and Maulbronn monastery Germany is ...

What's good about it? Quaint and quiet, on the west bank of the Rhine, Speyer is dominated by a Romanesque imperial cathedral, the burial place of some of Europe's most notable Holy Roman emperors.