About 80 kilometers southwest of Paris stands the city of Chartres, one of whose main cultural attractions is its Gothic…
Architecture
The plan of Saint Gall, the largest known architectural drawing of the High Middle Ages that was never built
The abbey of Saint Gall ( Sankt Gallen in German) was founded in the year 613 in the town that…
The wrought iron bar chain that saved the Amiens Cathedral from collapsing
The Amiens Cathedral, listed as a Historical Monument in 1882 and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981,…
The solar alignment that occurs twice a year in the temple of Abu Simbel
Three millennia ago Egypt was at the height of its Empire. After the war campaigns of Senusret III and a…
