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Travel Blogs from La Gleize
"Aquae Granni", actual: Aquisgrán o Aachen
... Hay que ubicarse en el año 800 aproximadamente cuando ya no había imperio Romano y el imperio de los francos, había conquistado la mayoría de lo que conocemos hoy como Europa: Francia, Italia, Suiza, Alemania, Polonia, Lituania, etc etc. Carlo Magno, el segundo rey del imperio, fue como su padre defensor del Papa y de lo que luego seria el Vaticano. Por eso lo de "Sacro imperio", y por eso lo de que ...
The long boring road to Luxembourg
... decide on my route there and then. It’s such a great feeling of freedom. I normally ride until about 5pm and then look for accommodation but since it is now winter I have changed that time to 3pm.
After miles and miles of jam-free running I knew I had to come up to a jam at some stage or another and sure enough I did. As I approached the town of Maastricht there was traffic as far as the eye could see ahead of me!! No ways was I sitting for hours in this jam ...
Medieval Village of Monschau Germany
... the houses. I regret not taking the time on the way into town to take some photos of the amazing "artwork" of the hedges. Some have doors and windows cut into them and some intricate designs. They are enormous beechwood thickets and are quite a sight. There are also a lot of cattle hedges lining the pastures in place of barbed wire and are ideal for protecting the livestock when storms rage. I wish we had more time to explore the village as there ...
Gawkin' at Aachen Two
... redecorated by Italian stucco artists, who obviously had great talent. One of them may be a little twisted as his work of art was a winged horse, with a goat's head, a bird's tail and women's breasts. It doesn't show very well in the pic, unfortunately. The Master Craftsmen's Court had amazing woodworking throughout, with Baroque wood panelling as well. The Ark staircase, which has neo-Gothic sandstone ...
Gawkin' at Aachen
... very little of my high school history (I memorized rather than learned), but I'm getting a hands on refreshere here! The Aachen Cathedral is a stunning, wondrous site, where there is a beatiful shrine to Charlemagne...the cathedral is his funeral place. The Aachen pilgrimage is one of the great Christian pilgramages. There are 4 significant relics, all linked to biblical narratives..the apparal of the Virgin Mary, ...