A noble and precious edifice : Linköping Cathedral

Linköping Cathedral is one of the best-preserved Gothic churches in Europe. It took nearly 300 years to build this gigantic edifice. Master builders, stone masons and artists came from as far away as Germany, England and France to build a cathedral at the crossroads between the local and the universal. With the Black Plague, periods of poverty, fires and catastrophes all to blame, construction would not be completed until about the year 1500. Monika Minnhagen Alvsten and Stefan Hammenbeck ar