Thursday, January 26, 2012

Aerial Photo of Europe's Grandest Cathedral





This photo is  magnificent aerial photo of the trademark coloured tiles of Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. The emblem on the roof is the Double Eagle, symbolizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the Hapsburgs.

It was severely damaged by fire and desecrated by looting Soviet  troops after the city was captured by the Red Army in World War II.  The Red Army was a force even more oppressive and alien to the West than the Turk.

Photo: by permission of Georg Gatnar.

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