{"id":1481,"date":"2025-05-31T22:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2025-05-31T22:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:51:30","slug":"sketching-in-aachen-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/sketching-in-aachen-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching in Aachen, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aachen-sketch-spring-771x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1483\" width=\"369\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aachen-sketch-spring-771x1024.jpeg 771w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aachen-sketch-spring-226x300.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aachen-sketch-spring-768x1020.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aachen-sketch-spring-1157x1536.jpeg 1157w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aachen-sketch-spring-1200x1594.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Aachen-sketch-spring.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 85vw, 369px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just an hour&#8217;s journey from Maastricht was the beautiful historic city of Aachen. As the birthplace of Holy Roman Emperor and &#8216;founding father of Europe, Charlemagne, there was a lot of history to discover. The Dom, pictured, is where Charlemagne was buried and where kings and queens were crowned for 600 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring was beginning to bloom in the city and the square outside the Dom was attracting crowds enjoying the atmosphere, sunshine and ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made a vow to do some sketching during my travels, so I brought my sketchbook and pen with me to quickly capture some impressions of the Dom and Ratskeller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just an hour&#8217;s journey from Maastricht was the beautiful historic city of Aachen. As the birthplace of Holy Roman Emperor and &#8216;founding father of Europe, Charlemagne, there was a lot of history to discover. The Dom, pictured, is where Charlemagne was buried and where kings and queens were crowned for 600 years. Spring was beginning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/sketching-in-aachen-germany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketching in Aachen, Germany&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlotteigguldenart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}