The streets of Aachen

One more post from Aachen last Easter: from the sublime - the cathedral - down to street level. Aachen wasn't full of beautiful buildings, the way Bruges, Ghent, Trier all were; but there was plenty going on in the streets. It has been a spa town since Roman times, and there are fountains everywhere; there is an enormous quantity of sculpture; sometimes you find both together:

These are just some of the grotesques illustrating how money passes from hand to hand around the edge of a pool.

( And that's not all... )

And that was Aachen, The next morning, we set off for Utrecht.