Paris, our hearts are with you. As French officials assess the fire damage at Notre-Dame and begin to rebuild — President Emmanuel Macron says he hopes to re-open the cathedral in five years, ...

This impossibly intricate cathedral hosts a number of divine relics and tombs, including the Shrine of the Three Kings, a gold reliquary said to hold the bones of the Magi, and the tombs of medieval ...

Twenty amazing facts behind that great architectural wonder, the medieval cathedral. 1. Cathedrals required massive amounts of building materials. To build just one tower of Ely Cathedral in England ...

They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

Jenny Alexander has received funding from: Regional government of Galicia, Spain, to cover expenses for working on a historical survey of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, 2008-13, also from ...

Over the past 800 years York Minster has been the backdrop to some of the most dramatic events in British history. It houses more than half of all the world's medieval glass and had a succession of ...

Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...

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