Bearing witness to centuries of history, these Gothic ... Pillar in Zaragoza, a sanctuary overlooking the city In the Spanish ...

It took a village to build Europe’s Gothic cathedrals Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from ...

This epic novel set, like Pillars, in medieval times, follows Arnau Estanyol, who begins life working as a "bastiax," or stone carrier, helping build the church of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona.

Medieval people saw the cathedral as an earthly representation of the heavenly Jerusalem. What part did the stonemason play in the creation of heaven on earth?

Just because you’re a monk doesn’t mean you can’t use CAD. The Carmelite monks of Wyoming are building a grandiose Gothic Monastery, and it’s awe inspiring how they are mana… ...

Five-and-a-half years after the devastating fire of 2019, Paris's Gothic jewel has been rescued, renovated and refurbished - offering visitors what promises to be a breathtaking visual treat.

Sitting atop a 130-foot stone pillar is the most remote and possibly the highest church in the world. For years mystery has surrounded the Katshki Pillar in Georgia as it remains unknown how the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed several sandstone sarcophagi from the early medieval period below the streets of a French city.

In the hours after evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday, a few pilgrims in Rome make their way to the Church of Saint Praxedes, home to a fragment of stone alleged to be the pillar ...

Building the Great Cathedrals How did medieval engineers construct magnificent skyscrapers of glass and stone?

It is a Gothic mass of brick and stone, decorated inside with elaborate trompe l’oeil and soaring pillars. Most famously, it houses the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

In the Church of Saint Praxedes in Rome, a treasure is kept: a fragment of stone alleged to be the pillar upon which Jesus was scourged. To this day, a handful of pilgrims pray before the column ...