Chartres travel - Lonely Planet | France, Europe Step off the train in Chartres, 91km southwest of Paris, and the two very different steeples – one Gothic, the other Romanesque – of its glorious 13th-century cathedral loom above
Cathédrale Notre Dame | Chartres, France - Lonely Planet One of Western civilisation’s crowning architectural achievements, the 130m-long Cathédrale Notre Dame de Chartres is renowned for its brilliant-blue stained-glass windows and sacred holy veil
Musée des Beaux-Arts | Chartres, France - Lonely Planet Chartres’ fine-arts museum, accessed via the gate next to Cathédrale Notre Dame’s north portal, is in the former Palais Épiscopal (Bishop’s Palace), built in the 17th and 18th centuries
Convent of St Paul de Chartres | Danang, Vietnam - Lonely Planet The Sisters of St Paul de Chartres date to the late 17th century and first arrived in Vietnam (in Saigon) in 1860, running orphanages and hospitals, and remain active in working with the poor and disabled
Best day trips from Paris – Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet France’s best-preserved medieval cathedral is Chartres’ 13th-century Cathédrale Notre Dame Built on the site of a Romanesque predecessor that was all but destroyed by a 1194 fire, the staggering structure is topped by Romanesque and Gothic steeples, and is revered for its 176 luminescent, deep-blue stained-glass windows