Chartres en Lumieres, a nighttime sound-and-light show (running April through September), helps re-create how the cathedral's facades might have looked with colorful statuary.

Chartres en Lumieres, a nighttime sound-and-light show (running April through September), helps re-create how the cathedral’s facades might have looked with colorful statuary.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

NPR's Sara Chayes reports on Malcom Miller, an Englishman who has made his life's work to learn, and tell, the history of France's Chartres Cathedral. Since the 1950's, Miller has given tours of ...

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.

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.

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 ...