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Renânia do Norte-Vestfália · Germany
In the destination Colônia and Düsseldorf.
In the photo: Markt square and Aachen town hall, Germany.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
City of Charlemagne, in the far west of Germany, next to the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. The cathedral, with the octagonal palatine chapel from around 800, was the first German monument inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 1978. Around it lie the cathedral treasury, the Gothic town hall built over the old Carolingian palace, the Centre Charlemagne and the Elisenbrunnen, from the thermal springs. It is the city of Aachener Printen.
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Cathedral built around Charlemagne’s octagonal palatine chapel from around 800, where he was buried and where the Holy Roman kings were crowned from 936 to 1531. First German monument inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 1978.
Aachen Cathedral Treasury, considered the most important ecclesiastical treasury north of the Alps. It displays the Lothar Cross, the bust of Charlemagne and the sarcophagus of Proserpina.
Gothic town hall built between 1330 and 1349 on the foundations of the hall of Charlemagne’s palace. In the coronation hall the feasts of the crowned kings were held and today the Charlemagne Prize is awarded there.
City museum of Aachen, in the Katschhof between the cathedral and the town hall. It tells the city’s history from the time of Charlemagne and is the starting point of the Route Charlemagne.
Neoclassical pavilion from 1827, with an open colonnade and two pavilions, from which Aachen’s sulfurous thermal water flows at about 52 °C. Symbol of the spa city and home to the tourist information office.
Bourgeois house museum in the center of Aachen, with furnished rooms from the mid-18th to the 19th century and a reconstruction of a pharmacy that operated in the building from 1663 to 1878.
Medieval gate from the early 14th century, one of the two remaining of the eleven gates of Aachen’s outer wall. It stands at the end of the Pontstraße, the street of bars and restaurants in the student district.
Aachen city art museum in a 19th-century mansion, with about 1,500 paintings, 700 sculptures and a print cabinet with works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Goya.
