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Aachen - Cathedral Treasury

The Aachen Cathedral Treasury ("Aachener Domschatz") is one of the largest and most important treasuries of medieval Christian artworks in Europe. The treasury has over a hundred works that are exhibited in a museum adjacent to the Aachen Cathedral – the monumental church of Charlemagne, which together with the treasury was added to the first UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in 1978.
Reliquary bust
Bust of Charlemagne

Contains a piece of the skull cap of Charlemagne

Partially gilded silver, precious stones, antique gems, enamel

Crown - Prague (?), before 1349 / Bust - Achen after 1349
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