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The Palace of Aachen was a group of buildings with residential, political, and religious purposes chosen by Charlemagne to be the center of power of the Carolingian Empire. The palace was located north of the current city of Aachen, today in the German Land (or state) of North Rhine-Westphalia. Most of the Carolingian palace was built in the ...
The Palatine Chapel in Aachen is an early medieval chapel and remaining component of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen in what is now Germany. Although the palace itself no longer exists, the chapel was preserved and now forms the central part of Aachen Cathedral. It is Aachen's major landmark and a central monument of the Carolingian Renaissance ...
Aachen Cathedral (German: Aachener Dom) is a Catholic church in Aachen, Germany and the cathedral of the Diocese of Aachen. One of the oldest cathedral buildings in Europe, it was constructed as the royal chapel of the Palace of Aachen of Emperor Charlemagne , who was buried there in 814.
Elden Ring [b] is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware. It was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki with worldbuilding provided by American fantasy writer George R. R. Martin . It was published for PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5 , Windows , Xbox One , and Xbox Series X/S on February 25 in Japan by FromSoftware and internationally ...
The French emperor visited Aachen cathedral on 2 October 1804, and did not sit on the throne, out of respect. [ 1 ] The Throne of Charlemagne ( German : Karlsthron or Aachener Königsthron , "Royal Throne of Aachen") is a throne erected in the 790s by Charlemagne , as one of the fittings of his palatine chapel in Aachen (today's Aachen ...
Torrent is a fictional horse in the 2022 action role-playing game and soulslike Elden Ring developed by FromSoftware. A ghostly being known as a "spectral steed", Torrent chooses the player character as his new owner. He subsequently assists the player in their quest to become Elden Lord, the restorer of a magical artifact called the Elden Ring ...
The Free Imperial City of Aachen, also known in English by its French name of Aix-la-Chapelle and today known simply as Aachen, was a Free Imperial City and spa of the Holy Roman Empire west of Cologne [1] and southeast of the Low Countries, in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle. [2]
Palatine Chapel (Octagon) in Aachen, Germany, now the central part of the cathedral Lorsch monastery gatehouse, Lorsch, Germany. Carolingian architecture is the style of north European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated west European politics.