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 ...

Chartres Cathedral presents outstanding authenticity, both through its structure and its decor, notably the portals and their sculptured decoration having undergone little alteration, and the ...

There's more to Chartres, a bustling town of 40,000, than the cathedral. For more than 1,000 years it's been hedged by what's now one of France's biggest, best-preserved medieval neighborhoods.

Another top Rick Steves pick is Chartres in Lights, a city-wide sound and light show in which the cathedral's facade and ...

The facade of Notre Dame de Chartres Cathedral in France. (Photo: Courtesy photo) In a letter dated 1835, a few years before his spectacular restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, ...

With his paper almost finished, Miller returned to Chartres at Easter, 1958, and was granted permission by the cathedral to give tours in English. It was not so much an act of devotion as a way to ...

The nave inside the cathedral in Chartres. (Photo: Solène Tadié) The phenomenon aligns with a broader trend of religious renewal in France. Already in 2025, ...