Church
Dom St. Jakob
Baroque cathedral rebuilt after earthquake damage, its vaulted ceiling frescoed high overhead.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Dom Saint Jakob, Innsbruck's baroque cathedral, follows the Bavarian fresco painter Cosmas Damian Asam, who in seventeen twenty-two climbed scaffolding above the half-finished nave to paint the ceiling overhead. It traces the daily risk behind the building's grandeur, from an architect who died before a single stone rose to the stucco workers and plasterers who carried on the work after him. A local legend has clung to that ceiling fresco ever since.
This audio guide was created using AI.