One of the most outstanding monuments of the Emperor Charles the Great - a cappella, which is known as the Palace - is valuable for the architecture of the city that is almost the only surviving fragment of the Imperial Palace. Also worth noting is that in this chapel many six centuries there were such important events as the coronation of the emperors who ruled the Holy Roman Empire. Today Chapel - one of the important parts of the monument, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Palace Chapel appeared simultaneously with the Aachen palace, whose construction dates back to the year 792. Identifying a strict architectural features of Romanesque buildings, the church, however, was a bright and cozy, even in his greatness stone. Traditional for the time base in the form of an octagonal plan, symmetry, dome - all this immediately gives the chapel features an early Byzantine culture. Interesting in this chapel are not only frescos - and both stories, and performance, but also a real imperial throne on which he sat once Charlemagne. For him, it brought a special marble on which you are inlaid.

In today's hierarchy of architectural monuments of the ancient times, which is no doubt become the era heyday of Aachen Palatine Chapel attracts tourists by the fact that in it, and today there is an unprecedented power of the emperor.