The Chartres Cathedral in France has long been a crowd favorite, drawing millions of Catholic pilgrims and art lovers every year who come to bask in the famous blue glow of its 13th-century stained ...

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 cathedral ...

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 equals ...

The architect responsible for the restoration work in progress at France’s Chartres Cathedral has responded to criticism that the historic church has been repainted. “The belief that a heavy-duty ...

Whatever Chartres may be now,” wrote Henry Adams, “when young it was a smile…. To us it is a child’s fancy, a toy-house to please the Queen of Heaven—to please her so much she would be happy in it—to ...

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 dozens ...

In La Cathèdrale, French novelist and art critic Joris-Karl Huysmans describes the experience of sitting in Chartres Cathedral just before dawn: this forest of the church…became absolutely ...

If the Cathedral of Chartres, delicate, lacelike, had been built in Hartford, Conn., it would probably by this time be a chipped and crumbling mass. Reason: U. S. climate is inimical to fine ...