The beautiful city of Utrecht is found situated in the center of Holland and has the merit to be one of the more old woman of the country. Their channels and soft will carry us to another epoch and the same enjoy world fame due to that no other city has some so romantic springs and that so many words of love have been said in them. Most of the springs and channels stem from the fifteenth century.
The Tower Dom is an enormous tower that is found nailed next to the Gothic Cathedral and has a privileged situation that dominates the city and a global panorama of the city shows us. Is the high and oldest tower of all the Netherlands and is one of the monuments of the one that the inhabitants of Utrecht feel prouder. In the interior of the tower we will be able to see two chapels, that of S. Michael (private chapel of the bishops) and the chapel of Egmond that was, while the private chapel of the bishop lived Egmond. In the tower there are three bells with a total weight of 9,000 kilograms. The tower has a height of 111 meters and a vision pan of the city provides us. In the clear days can be made out since her the city of Amsterdam.
The cathedral is supposed that stems from the century VII although during its long history passed through different vicissitudes. In the year 1253 was damaged by the fire and between the years 1254 and 1517 the church I am reconstructed continuing the canons of French Gothic style. It more noticeable of the cathedral they are the paintings that have their walls and that date from the fifteenth century. The plaza of the Dom arose in 1826 and there they continue maintaining part of the remainders of the old cathedral.
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