Aachen Sights

The roundabout at the border where we swapped between the Dutch and German buses.

The Aachen Hauptbahnhof, or Main Train Station, where the bus stopped to drop us off. 

The horse sculpture in front of the Hauptbahnhof.   Horses were a popular theme throughout the city.

The view down the Theaterstraße or Theater Street.  The street splits and curves around the theater as the Theaterplatz. 

The theater is really beautiful.  It is roughly rectangular but the corners are rounded and it is very white and it really stands out.

 They were setting up for a performance of some kind when I went by. 

The front of the theater.

The horse statute at the front of the theater square.

This is the street across from the front of the Theater.  The restaurant where I ate lunch is just to the right of this picture.

This is a picture from the website of the Aachener Brauhaus, the restaurant where I had lunch, because I forgot to get a picture of it myself.  I chose this restaurant because, on looking through the menus, this seemed to have the most authentically German selections.  A lot of the other restaurants in the area seemed to be significantly Frencified.  You can see the website, which includes the menu, pictures, and other information, here.
I had the Schnitzel Wiener Art mit Kartoffelsalat--the Viennese style wiener schnitzel with potato salad--because that was the way that I remember having dinners when I was in Munich.  It was pretty good food (I especially liked the potato salad) and the building was very nice and had a lot of character.  However, I am not sure that it was an entirely traditional menu.  The potato salad had cucumber curls on it and the wiener schnitzel was served with little individual packets of mustard, which didn't seem quite right.  

There were statutes all around the city.  Some of them were peculiar and a bit bulgy.  There was a whole collection of these statutes around this fountain but I couldn't get a clear picture of all of them because people were in the way.

A corner of the Stadhuis--City Hall--with one of the outdoor restaurant areas that surrounded it.

Shops across the street from the Stadhuis.  A lot of the shops and streets where named after Charlemagne.

One of the beautiful shop facades that are scattered throughout the city.
As far as I know, this is actually real gold decorating the building.

For some reason, golden unicorns were a very popular theme.

One of the many statues of Charlemagne.  This one on a fountain in front of the Stadhuis.

A statuette of Charlemagne on the corner of the building.

A pharmacy named after Charlemagne.