Experience the awe-inspiring grandeur of Europe’s most iconic Gothic cathedrals from above, as towering spires and intricate ...

Barcelona Cathedral is open to visitors from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on weekdays, 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 ...

The Gothic cathedral—from St.-Denis and Notre-Dame ... of power and influence of the Catholic Church. As they towered above, reaching toward the skies, they became tangible expressions of ...

Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest achievements—ambitious monuments where master architects, carpenters, stonemasons, and glassworkers pushed engineering to its limits.

So Sully ordered his church to be knocked down and replaced by a Gothic cathedral. Let me pause. All the above sounds straightforward, but in fact it is astonishing. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de ...

To this must be added the three stained-glass windows of the 12th century above the Royal Portail ... Criterion (ii): Chartres Cathedral has exercised considerable influence on the development of ...

A centuries-old bell rang and an archbishop knocked at the Gothic cathedral’s great ... we saw the thousands of metal tubes of the cathedral’s great organ above us; the delicately sculpted ...

For nearly 900 years, since construction began in 1163, the great Gothic cathedral had been a constant and gravitational center of Paris, holding time at bay. Before the fire it attracted some 13 ...

Knees and shoulders should be covered. Towering above the center of the Barri Gòtic district is Barcelona's principal cathedral. The Gothic cathedral's construction began in the late 13th century ...