Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Woven in the 16th century for the Emperor Matthias of the House of Hapsburg, the royal family of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire at the time, the tapestries were expensive art objects of their ...

And in the late 700s AD it was the capital of Europe, of the Holy Roman Empire founded by the Emperor Charles 1st, Karolus Magnus, better known as Charlemagne. Anne McElvoy is joined in Aachen by ...