Church · Chartres, France

Chartres Cathedral

172 windows of 12th-century glass that survived two wars in boxes, and a labyrinth in the nave floor.

Chartres Cathedral is in Chartres, and this is Chartres — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 740 km across and 260 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 48.448°N, 1.488°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The TGV network makes Paris–Marseille three hours and Paris–Bordeaux two. All of France →

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Chartres · Paris & Île-de-France · France

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Journeys that stop here

Camino & Sacred Europe

Six places people have walked to for a thousand years

15 days

The record

What this atlas holds about Chartres Cathedral, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Church
Give it: 2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 48.448°N, 1.488°E
In: Chartres