The Cologne Cathedral houses the Shrine of the Three Kings, a reliquary which tradition says holds the bones of the Biblical Magi. But how did they get there? The long journey of the 'Three Wise ...

Begun in 1248, the construction of this Gothic masterpiece took place in several stages and was not completed until 1880. Over seven centuries, successive builders were inspired by the same faith and ...

Cologne, Germany, June 23, 1963: Led down the steps by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and trailed by a security detail, President John F. Kennedy leaves the famed Cologne cathedral after Mass.

Recently, Sun Xilin from Yiyuan County, Shandong Province embarked on a meaningful journey on German soil. During the journey ...

The fire that engulfed Notre Dame in Paris on Monday, severely damaging a building that had stood for more than eight centuries, felt unprecedented. And in one sense, it was: how else can one ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...