Cologne Cathedral

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Here are the pictures from the day of the Cologne Cathedral tour/Excavation Tour. Looking back on these now I recognize the vast majority of them suck, so I am vowing to go back before I leave to do a better job. This will give a general idea as to what it is like. I'm also not in any of them, because by the time the Excavation Tour ended it was a torrential downpour.

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Photos

The Cathedral.
Construction began in 1248 and ended in the late 1800s.

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Statutes on the side of the building.

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The only remaining part of the original train station following bombing in WWII.

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The Cathedral.

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The new main train station of Cologne.

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The Cathedral.

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Gargoyles jutting out of the side of the building.

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Gargoyles jutting out of the side of the building.

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Inside of the Cathedral.

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Stained glass windows. All of the glass was removed prior to the bombings in WWII when it became evident Cologne would be targeted.

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Inside of the Cathedral.

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Stain glass windows.

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Inside the gold shrines are the (supposedly) the bones of the 3 wise men.

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Another angle of the shrines.

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Example of many of the little side parts honoring different religious persons.

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Here is where I started taking illegal photos of stuff I shouldn't have down in the treasure rooms.

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I don't remember exactly when these were from, or anything I took pictures of. But the majority of them were from about 1400 and before.

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Monks outside the church.