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Prime Minister Luc Frieden opened the Charlemagne Prize festivities with a speech on Europe at the Aachen Cathedral on May 27 ...
Prime Minister Luc Frieden will introduce the Charlemagne Prize festivities with a speech on Europe at Aachen Cathedral on 27 May.
The nation had grand plans for a national cathedral designed by a celebrity architect. The $400 million project became a political battleground. By Ruth Maclean Photographs by Francis Kokoroko ...
including the Aachen Cathedral, one of Europe’s oldest churches, which dates to 805. Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins from Alabama was one of the 260 black grave diggers at Margraten. Courtesy of Robert M.
This drone footage features the towering Canterbury Cathedral, the imperial beauty of Aachen Cathedral, and the sacred Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Glide over the Gothic lines of Erfurt Cathedral ...
The gift shop at Washington National Cathedral in D.C. could eventually be home to the largest Lego cathedral in the world. The project was started in 2019 and is now made up of 125,000 Lego bricks.
On Jan. 9, Carter’s casket arrived at the steps of the Washington National Cathedral. It was draped in an American flag and borne by a special military honor guard. Before entering the towering ...
When we stand in the presence of a Pontormo fresco in a Florentine chapel, or before a glittering reliquary in an Aachen cathedral treasury, or beneath the ribbed vaults of a Gothic nave ...
The awe-inspiring Aachen Cathedral is not only a UNESCO World Heritage Site but also boasts a history dating back to 769AD, starting under the command of none other than Charlemagne himself.
The silk cloth was originally made in the 1100s and was used when Charlemagne, who died in 814, was exhumed and reinterred in Aachen Cathedral by his imperial successor Frederick II, in the 1210s.
Notre Dame Cathedral formally reopened its doors Saturday, more than five years after a devastating fire nearly destroyed the 861-year-old Gothic wonder at the center of the City of Lights.