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Chur
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Copyright: Thomas Sautter (mjdundee) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 306 W: 13 N: 171] (3300)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09
Categories: Architecture
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-10-12 6:46
Viewed: 473
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Chur is declared to be the oldest city in Switzerland.
The capital of the canton of Graubünden, is over 5,000 years old.
Here is the cathedral church of St Luzius (who is the patron of Coire, and is supposed to be a 2nd-century British king Lucius, though really the name has probably arisen from a confusion between Lucius of Cyrene, miswritten curiensis, with the Roman general Lucius Munatius Plancus, who conquered Raetia).

Built between 1178 and 1282, on the site of an older church, it contains many curious medieval antiquities (especially in the sacristy), as well as a picture by Angelica Kaufmann, and the tomb of the great Grisons political leader (d. 1637) Jenatsch. Opposite is the Bishops Palace, and not far off, is the Episcopal Seminary (built on the ruins of a 6th-century monastic foundation). Not far from these ancient monuments is the new Raetian Museum, which contains a great collection of objects relating to Raetia (including the geological collections of the Benedictine monk of Disentis, Placidus a Spescha (1752-1833), who explored the high snowy regions around the sources of the Rhine). One of the hospitals was founded by the famous Capuchin philanthropist, Father Theodosius Florentini (1808-1865), who was long the Romanist cur of Coire, and whose remains were in 1906 transferred from the cathedral here to Ingenbohl (near Schwyz), his chief foundation. The Romano-Gothic cathedral where lie the remains of Jörg Jenatsch was begun by Bishop Tello (758-73), has a highly interesting crypt; it contains remarkable paintings by Dürer and Holbein.
Source: wikipedia - partly.

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interesting POV here thomas :)
including the old street lamp on the side provides a nice insight and details to the old city
good colors and clarity

koh

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