Thursday, April 8, 2010 (Part 8):Vienna is a nicely laid out city. The central inner city is encircled by a series of roads that create an almost perfect circle, and almost dead center in the middle of the circle is Stephensdom, the largest and oldest church in Vienna.
Unfortunately, we arrived at Stephensdom late in the day (it was after 5:00pm), and our access to the inside of the church was severely limited. We were able to enter the church, but we were confined to the very back of the sanctuary. And so we had to be satisfied with peering into the sanctuary through several gates. We talked about coming back when we could tour the interior, but we never did. There was just too much else to do!
The exterior of this church was undergoing some serious cleaning and refurbishing. And like many monuments under repair in Europe, I was pleased to see that the scaffolding erected to support the construction
work had been draped with canvases that reflected the image of the facade beneath. Perhaps you can see some of that in the picture above. Both the base of the main spire, and the middle section of the front spire are covered with scaffolding and canvas that mimics the appearance of the church.
One of the most notable features of Stephensdom is its tiled roof. It's very colorful; surprisingly so. What I found interesting about it was that it had a very modern look, and yet this is the way it was originally designed and constructed hundreds of years ago.
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