This is the incredibly beautiful roof of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Austria.
St. Stephen’s Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church which was built between the 12th and 15th century. Its famous roof is covered by 230,000 colored and glazed tiles. On the north side, it shows a zigzag pattern and in its middle part rhombuses enclosed by lines.
More about my trip to Vienna and St. Stephen’s Cathedral soon on this blog!
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Beautiful structure!
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Yes, indeed 🙂
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beauty and color. Back when it was built few people could appreciate the close up view
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Fortunately, we can 🙂
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That’s actually what prompted the invention of binoculars.
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Or the zoom in function in cameras 🙂
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Or balloons to get closer.
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This is amazing. I wonder how ling it took to make the patterns on the roof?
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Unfortunately, I don’t know. I was trying to get more information about the colored tiles on the internet, because I couldn’t imagine them being used in the 12th century. But it was difficult to find valid infos about it. All I know is that the roof had been distroyed during WW II, and they rebuilt it. They say, though, that the roof looked this way before.
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Awesome! Really like these pictures. Beautiful roof…
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Thank you! It’s a great photography subject!
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what a great zig zag pattern to the roof
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That’s why a chose it for this week’s challenge 🙂 And thank you for following my blog!
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This is the perfect building for this week’s challenge. I’m looking forward to seeing photos of the inside now.
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Thank you, the interior will come in the next days 🙂
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I’m so glad you posted this. I was there last year ( and posted about it: http://wp.me/p1zSwJ-1Kk). Your roof shots are much better than mine! Can’t wait to see your interior views! Great choice for the zig zag challenge.
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Thank you! I’m glad you liked it!
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Perfect response to the prompt!
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Thank you!
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This brings back memories…. of three weeks ago!
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Lovely snaps! I remember when visiting Vianna being mesmerised by the cathedral’s roof pattern and taking lots of photographs. Of course that was early 90’s and the camera had a film inside and who knows where those pictures are now. 🙂
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In a relic of ancient times called photo album? 🙂
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I wish. LOL! They’re most probably scattered somewhere in a box or piled up among magazines in an envelope. But they’ll emerge, eventually. 🙂 It’s been well over 20 years when I had them developed (another ancient term) and moved several times since then, too. LOL!
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What an amazing pattern. Great!
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Thanks, compliments make my day 🙂
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