Located 80 kilometers southwest of Paris, this quiet town is a pilgrimage destination. The famous Cathedral of Chartres is a thousand reasons to visit Chartres, just an hour from Montparnasse station in Paris, and you can see the cathedral 30 kilometers away.
1 Cathedrale notre dame de chartres
The city of Chartres surrounds the cathedral and frames its huge figure. As early as 1979, Chartres Cathedral was included in the United Nations World Heritage Site, along with the Mont Saint-Michel, the Palace of Versailles, the ancient city of Cairo and the pyramids, and the Auschwitz concentration camp.
It is said that the Virgin Mary once appeared here, which preserves the holy clothes that Mary once wore, and is an important Catholic pilgrimage site for the Virgin Mary in Western Europe. Built at the beginning of the 13th century, the church is a Gothic cathedral and a landmark of chartres. The inside is free, but there is a fee to get to the top.
Chartres, France is known as the "capital of lights and perfumes", with many cultural monuments such as the Chartres Cathedral. Since 2003, Chartres has held the Light Festival, which has become the largest light show of cultural monuments due to the large number of monuments and the long period of activities, aiming to make people start to re-examine and love these cultural heritage.
From April 15, 2023 to January 6, 2024, the 20th Chartres Light Festival returns, 20 ancient buildings become the base of this carnival, people can walk among these illuminated ancient buildings, feel the cultural charm of the city.
Chartres Cathedral is one of the largest churches in France and was one of the first French sites to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979. It has the richest and most complete collection of old stained glass Windows in the world, with 172 stained glass Windows spread over 2600 square meters. The facade of the cathedral is lit up during the festival.
The light display on the chartreselumieres official website shows that it is from April 30, 2022 to January 14, 2023, every night, it is recommended to check the specific start time on the official website, we are going on November 13, starting at 6 o 'clock in the evening, and we still make it back to Paris.
The official website can also find 20 les sites illumines in different parts of the city, you can go to the clock.
3 Mosaic house
✅ Adresse: 22, rue du Repos, 28000 Chartres
⏰ Ouverture du 16 mars au 14 novembre
Ferme le mardi, les 1er et 8 mai.
🅿️ Park on the side of the road where the house is
🎫 plein tarif: 6,50 €Free for under sevens
There is such a magical place, actually from the hands of an ordinary person, he collected tiles from all directions, only to paste the whole house art from the folk, lamenting his dedication to a piece of creation!
The whole house, the garden, was covered in mosaics, tiles. Raymond Isidore started in 1938, from the inside of the house, to the walls, to the garden, over a period of 24 years, to the way we see it now. It took 2,900 hours, 4 million pieces, about 15 tons, all the way to death. Love to do things for a lifetime, really will do the ultimate. In 1981, the chartres municipality acquired this art-like house, the work of Raymond Isidore's lifelong passion.
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