Ladenschlussgesetz
On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed.
–Codex Justinianus, lib. 3, tit. 12, 3
For the first time on our trip, the weather was less than ideal, with rain and temperatures in the low fifties. Nevertheless, we started out on our short stroll through Speyer, Germany, a small town of about 50,000 inhabitants on the west bank of the river Rhine laced with a network of cobblestone streets and whose visible horizon is dominated by a cathedral which serves as the final resting place of eight Holy Roman Emperors and German kings.… Read the rest