The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry also known as Tapestry of Queen Mathilde is a large canvas embroi`ery, a unique piece of art of the eleventh century, which relates by a sequence of images with inscriptions in Latin the events preceding the conquest of England by the Normans, in commemoration of the Battle of Hastings. Since the 1980's, the original is preserved and exhibited in the Centre William the Conqueror in the city of Bayeux, in Normandy and has been submitted for registration in 2007 in the Unesco Programme Memory of World.