Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres. cote Sud

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Chartres Cathedral (French Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres.) - Catholic cathedral located in Chartres prefecture of Eure-et-Loir. Located 90 km south-west of Paris and is one of the masterpieces of Gothic arhitektury.Na site of the modern cathedral of Chartres has long stood in the church. With 876 years of Chartres is kept the Holy Shroud of the Virgin Mary. Instead of the first cathedral, burned down in 1020, was built with a huge Romanesque cathedral crypt. He survived a fire in 1134 that destroyed almost the entire city, but was badly damaged during a fire June 10, 1194. From this fire, occupied by lightning, survived only tower of the western facade and crypt. Miraculous escape from the fire of the sacred shroud, it was considered a sign from above, and gave rise to the construction of a new, even more ambitious, zdaniya.Vozvedenie new cathedral began in the same 1194 on the donations flowing into Chartres from all over France.