The voices of vacationers partying at cafes faded as I left Chartres' picture-postcard main square and entered the dusky nave of the cathedral. Blinking until my eyes adjusted, I stared up at ...

For a chance to experience the mystery of the medieval church through statues, glass and relics, France's Chartres Cathedral, just an hour from Paris by train, is ideal. The towering Gothic ...

In the “book of Chartres,” as some nickname the church, the text is the sculpture and windows, and its binding is the architecture.

Chartres Cathedral / photo Ireneed on Wikimedia Commons One of the most unique details of the cathedral is the labyrinth located on the floor of the main nave, which was built at the same time as the ...

Notre Dame of Chartres Cathedral in France, a Christian landmark since the Middle Ages, is currently celebrating the first millennium of its foundation. This Marian shrine, whose fame almost ...

When I was last in the cathedral of Chartres, I saw a lot of scaffolding — the apse was full of it, and you couldn’t get close — but I did not realize what was going on. I thought they were ...

The talk is a 90th birthday present from her son. ”It`s a hobby that`s become my profession,” he said of his love of–his obsession with–the Cathedral of Our Lady in Chartres.

Petit is a doctor to some of the world’s oldest stained-glass masterpieces: the blue-hued mosaics of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, which stands in this medieval village 50 miles ...

Universe of Stone A history of Chartres, "the most perfect cathedral ever created." Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral By Philip Ball HarperCollins 288 pp. $27.95 ...

For a chance to experience the mystery of the medieval church through statues, glass and relics, France’s Chartres Cathedral, just an hour from Paris by train, is ideal. The towering Gothic ...

For a chance to experience the mystery of the medieval church through statues, glass and relics, France’s Chartres Cathedral, just an hour from Paris by train, is ideal. The towering Gothic ...