The voices of vacationers partying at cafes faded as I left Chartres' picture-postcard ... Between the rose windows, elongated "lancets" throbbed, each one a kaleidoscopic broadsword.

The three rose windows at Chartres Cathedral in France, for example, invite annual pilgrimages and stand as the central stained-glass installations in the structure. By design, rose windows are ...

Chartres Cathedral, Two pointed, pale grey Gothic towers pierce the air on either side of the magnificent rose window on the western side of Chartres Cathedral, and 152 beautiful stained glass ...

It’s the most beautiful thing in the world today: The great and glorious rose window on the ... the first Gothic cathedral I ever saw was Notre Dame de Chartres — a day or two before I saw ...

And with its vast nave — over 400 feet long and the widest in France — Chartres has plenty of room for windows. The cathedral contains the world’s largest surviving collection of medieval ...

And with its vast nave — over 400 feet long and the widest in France — Chartres has plenty of room for windows. The cathedral contains the world’s largest surviving collection of medieval ...