we went to Chartres Cathedral, just south of Paris. My father took me by the hand as we both stared at the blue glass casting reflections all over the limestone in the great medieval church.

Pilgrims are greeted by the steeples in the distance and impeccable stained glass when inside Notre Dame de Chartres Cathedral in France. (Photo: Courtesy photo) The particular appeal of Chartres ...

Amazingly, after Chartres' cathedral burnt to the ... Mary dressed in the famed "Chartres blue," a sumptuous color made by mixing cobalt oxide into the glass. Two of my favorite Gothic cathedrals ...

CHARTRES, France (AFP ... while the transept is also lined up for restoration. And the cathedral's famous blue stained-glass windows are also on the agenda. "The glass panes are dirty on ...

The Chartres Cathedral in France has long been ... lovers every year who come to bask in the famous blue glow of its 13th-century stained glass. But the love may be souring. A new petition against ...

Finally, Chartres Cathedral has almost totally conserved its homogeneous decor of stained-glass windows executed between approximately 1210 and 1250. To this must be added the three stained-glass ...