Gilles Fresson gives the keys to wonder to visitors to Chartres Cathedral

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The opportunity to learn, pell-mell, that this cathedral was built in just 25 years, which was “dazzling” for the time; that 80% of the stained-glass windows it still houses are original; or that its labyrinth is the only one left from the Middle Ages…

Do you know these four secrets about Chartres Cathedral?

Gilles Fresson, who has been studying Chartres Cathedral for years, also gave visitors the keys to discovering what the 154 stained glass windows in the building tell us. “It’s a real comic book, for which there are different levels of reading,” he explains. “We begin the reading with the first stained glass window located on the left, when we enter the cathedral, a stained glass window dedicated to Noah. And the reading ends with the last stained glass window on the right, which is dedicated to Saint John, the apostle author of the Apocalypse…”.