A Gothic masterpiece, Saint-Denis Basilica harbours over a thousand years of France’s history within its stone walls.

The place has a very long history. The basilica was built on a Gallo-Roman cemetery, but above all, it houses the tomb of Saint Denis, who died a martyr around 250. The abbey, a popular place of ...

the high altar of the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is covered by a baldachin, a bronze canopy designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The altar is built over an underground monument identified as the ...

Saint-Denis (France) (AFP) – The Basilica of Saint-Denis on the northern outskirts of Paris may be less famous than Notre-Dame, but when Emmanuel Putanier was asked to restore the historic ...

A worker installs the reproduction of a stained glass window, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), February 1, 2023. STÉPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP Behind the basilica of Saint-Denis (in ...

The basilica of Saint-Denis is a major building in the history of France ... The neo-classical chapel was built in 1779, thanks to the arrival of Madame Louise de France, daughter of King Louis XV, ...

He also built the basilica of St. Paul and restored the ... He did the same thing for St. Denis, whom the king had taken as a patron saint. At court, Eligius and his friend Dado lived a life ...

He built the structure in the northern suburbs ... (See how stonemasons keep England’s oldest cathedrals standing tall.) The Basilica of Saint-Denis is the necropolis of nearly every king ...

The word “Gothic” often envokes a description of mysterious homes, or a modern-day group of people who have an affinity for dark aesthetics, but what the gothic architectural style ...