A visit to Chartres Cathedral, located about 80 kilometres from Paris, can be a confounding experience. The contrasting spires are impressive. So are those soaring stone buttresses.

However, Calvel will not paint the exterior, saying, “If we tried to do that on the outside I would be hanged. ... Save Chartres Cathedral has 573 supporters and counting.

The towering Gothic cathedral somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century.

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 ...

Yesterday’s Impromptus included some remarks on Chartres Cathedral. (That column — or whatever we should call it — was Part I of a “cruise journal”; for Part II, go here.) I have a ...

If Notre Dame de Chartres was France’s first cathedral to be listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1979, it is primarily because it is considered the most complete and best-preserved of the ...

The 43rd annual Paris-Chartres pilgrimage concluded on Monday with a solemn high Mass at Chartres Cathedral, marking the end of a record-breaking three-day journey that drew 19,000 participants ...

The towering Gothic cathedral, marking the center of the town of Chartres, somehow captures the spirit of the 13th century — the so-called Age of Faith — in the 21st century.