Chartres Cathedral

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL (Chartres, France)

This 13th-century cathedral, a high point of French Gothic art, is 50 miles southwest of Paris. Its stained glass windows (their size made possible by the flying buttresses that support the walls) and most of the architecture (the mismatched towers, the three riotously-sculpted great facades) are unchanged. Tourists come for the sights; pilgrims for the relics.

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(Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons; CTTO)