Nowhere in Paris does stained-glass windows quite as well as Sainte-Chapelle. The panes – dating back to the chapel's construction in the 13th century – depict 1,113 scenes from the Old and ...

Restoration is to begin in the early part of the new year at Famagusta’s St George of the Latins church, bicommunal Technical ...

Why choose Paris for solo travel? Why not? After all, we will always have Paris, and Paris is always a good idea. Oh, we ...

10. Watch a Classical Concert at Sainte-Chapelle If you spend Christmas in Paris, don’t miss out on the opportunity to catch a classical concert at Sainte-Chapelle. The latter, with a history tracing ...

In 1239, it was acquired by King Louis IX of France, who brought it to Paris and housed it at Notre Dame before commissioning the Sainte-Chapelle for its safekeeping. It was later returned to ...

In theory, all churches are the same. As the enduring nursery rhyme puts it: “Here is the church and here is the steeple; ...

The crown was acquired by King Louis IX of France in Constantinople in 1239 for 135,000 livres - nearly half France's annual expenditure at the time. Initially kept at the Sainte-Chapelle, it was ...

Initially kept at the Sainte-Chapelle, it was moved to Notre-Dame's treasury in 1806 - until a massive fire in 2019 ripped through the 850-year-old building. Firefighters and police officers ...

guests will have their choice of excursions either to the Cluny Museum to discover medieval works of art or to the Gothic stained-glass shrine of Sainte-Chapelle. Also included will be an ...

Relics brought it all close again. This reached a peak in Aquinas’s lifetime, when the French King Louis IX built the Sainte-Chapelle, a gothic royal chapel in Paris to house relics including ...