Charlie's chair

Although we'd been to Aachen several times before, we had never caught the English tour of the church in Aachen just at the right time so we could see "the man's" chair, otherwise known as Charlemagne's throne. Located on the upper level of Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel, this modest throne, fashioned from marbled tiles, served as the coronation throne for successive German leaders for centuries.

Pictured here, this throne is over 1100 years old....



A view of the masses, or at least that is what Charlie would've seen from his vantage point, his throne.