The World's Most Beautiful Places
Dance of Death Stained Glass Window – Minster – Bern – Switzerland
A panel from the Dance of Death (Danse Macabre) stained glass window in the Minster (Munster) Cathedral in Bern, Switzerland. The figures on the Münster window were done by Niklaus Manuel between 1516 and 1519, and depicted people from different stations of medieval society succumbing to the Black Death.
A panel from the Dance of Death (Danse Macabre) stained glass window in the Minster (Munster) Cathedral in Bern, Switzerland. The figures on the Münster window were done by Niklaus Manuel between 1516 and 1519, and depicted people from different stations of medieval society succumbing to the Black Death.
Throughout the medieval old town of Fussen, Germany, the visitor is greeted with ornately decorated merchant signs, indicating the current business or the type of business that historically occupied the building. This shop was a factory that dyed, and washed fabrics. Fussen is located in the southern state of Bavaria, on the north side of the Bavarian Alps.