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St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim
Built between 1010 and 1020, St. Michael's Church, with its symmetrical plan and two apses, is a typical example of Otto-Romanesque art in Old Saxony. The interior of the church, especially the wooden ceiling and painted stucco decorations, the famous bronze doors and the Bernwald bronze columns, together with the treasures of St. Mary's Cathedral, is of extraordinary significance as an example of a Romanesque church in the Holy Roman Empire.
Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari
This Thracian tomb from the 3rd century BC, discovered in 1982 near the village of Sveshtari, reflects the basic structural principles of Thracian religious architecture. The tomb has a unique architectural decoration with colorful half-human, half-vegetal caryatids and painted murals. The 10 female figures carved on the walls of the central chamber and the half-moon decoration of the chamber vault are the only such decorations found so far in the Thracian region. According to ancient geographers, it is a significant relic of the culture of the Getes, a Thracian people who had contact with the Hellenistic and Thule worlds.