The cathedral treasury is a veritable mother lode of gold, silver and jewels. Items of particular importance include a silver and golden bust of Charlemagne, a 10th-century bejewelled processional cross known as the Lotharkreuz, a 1000-year-old relief-decorated ivory situla (a pail for holy water) and the marble sarcophagus that held Charlemagne’s bones until his canonisation; the relief shows the rape of Persephone. Get tickets at Dom Information.
