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 - 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
france-8-around-paris Senlis has a magnificent Gothic cathedral said to have inspired the mother of all basilicas, the cathedral at Chartres, with its breathtaking stained glass and intricately carved stone portals The region also counts some of the nation’s most extravagant châteaux