St. Peter's Church
Baroque church with a Charlemagne founding legend, crowned by a Rottmayr fresco under a soaring dome.
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St. Peter's Church in Vienna holds a gilded sculpture, carved in 1729, of John of Nepomuk, a Bohemian priest chained, gagged and thrown into Prague's Vltava River in 1393 for refusing to reveal a queen's confession. The guide follows how that legend made him the patron saint of silence, with his statue spreading to bridges across Europe. Look for the scene in gold and silver just across from the pulpit, in a church built on ground people once claimed Charlemagne blessed.
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