Entrances

 See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt starts the month with the theme 'Details' - Architecture

Hahnetor Gate, Cologne

Here is where once kings entered Cologne on the way to the cathedral after being crowned in Aachen. Of Cologne's 12 medieval gateways three have been preserved. Hahnetor Gate stands at the west of the city on Rudolfplatz 

The main portal of Bern Minster considered one of the finest examples of Gothic sculpture in Switzerland and the only statues of the cathedral to survive the iconoclasm of the Protestant Reformation. Above the doors is the Last Judgment. The figures to the left of the door represent the five Foolish Virgins, the ones to the right are the Wise Virgins. In the centre - Justice. (Wikipedia has a photo of the rather more glitzy gold painted details).

Patriarchal Basilica St John Lateran, Rome

 The fancy facade of the Archbasilica of St John Lateran constructed by Alessandro Galilei although at the time (1733-35) the "monumental severity and palace character of the facade caused a scandal in Roman artistic circles" others did not take the same view and by the end of the century its neoclassical beauty was admired.