Domkerk
Gothic cathedral choir and transept, cut off from its tower when a storm felled the nave.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Domkerk in Utrecht follows Herman Saftleven, an ageing painter who lived a few streets away, through the summer of sixteen seventy-four and the evening a storm struck the city. It reaches back to the missionary Willibrord and the bishops who rebuilt this ground again and again, and to a Gothic cathedral that ran out of money. Best heard on the Domplein, between the tower and the church.
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