edited by Robert and Elisa

The Cathedral of Aquisgrana is the most ancient cathedral of the North Europe, the jobs for its construction began in 786, it is a whole styles of various periods, the Palatine Chapel, that is the most ancient part in the Cathedral, is for instance in style byzantine/carolingio. The Cathedral was wanted from Charles Magno, the emperor it often sojourned to Aquisgrana, it was in love of this small town, where the climate was mild in comparison to the other cities of the empire. To his death in 814, it came buried in his cathedral, its rests are, still today, preserved inside the Cathedral in a casket.

Besides Charles Magno in the cathedral Brass III has also been interred. From 936 to 1531 the Cathedral was used for the crowning of 30 emperors of the Sacred Roman Empire. As already said, the part most important of the Cathedral is the Palatine Chapel, in style classic/byzantine and frank-Germanic, when it was realized it was the greatest North dome of the Alps. The teacher that dealt it with his realization was Oddone from Metz. The work was consecrated during Kings Magi's party in 804 from Pope Lion III.

The octagonal Chapel is tall around 31 meters, 16 meters diameter, it is sustained by eight imposing pillars, the number of the pillars is not casual, but it represented the Resurrection, because seven are the number of the time, more one, God, the octagonal construction was used in the construction of different sacred buildings as for instance the Basilica of St. Lawrence to Milan, the Basilica of St. Vitale in Ravenna and the Church of Saint Maria in Pole in Pavia. In 1978 the Cathedral of Aquisgrana was the first German monument to be inserted in the list of the Unesco of the Patrimonies of the humanity.