- 5 hours
half day private tour in a
luxurious sedan (1 to 4 persons) or deluxe air-conditioned mini van (5 to 8 persons)
- Departure
at 9 a.m or 2 p.m
- Price
is per person based on 2 people traveling together
TOUR
DESCRIPTION:
Escorted by your
multilingual driver or professional driver/guide you will drive through
France’s breadbasket, one of the richest agricultural regions of
France.
Then out of the middle
of nowhere you will see a silhouette like a great vessel of stone above
an ocean of wheat : Chartres Cathedral. Partly built in 1445 over a
period of 26 years, Chartres represents the high point of French Gothic
architecture.
Your guide will
describe and show you the vast nave, the royal portal adorned with
sculptures. You will learn how to decrypt the secret messages. On the
west façade you will see one tower in flamboyant gothic style while the
other one was crafted in the Romanesque style. Chartres Cathedral
houses over 150 beautiful stained glass windows, illustrating scenes
from the Bible that containing hidden meanings. Each window is divided
in panels, and when read from left to right, bottom to top, with the
assistance of your tour guide, will reveal to you the secret messages
of the main windows: the tree of Jesse, the blue Virgin window, Mary
Magdalene and the redemption window.
There is also a
Labyrinth inlaid in the floor of the church’s nave that was used by
pilgrims as penance. Your guide will give you help you find the secret
to finding the exit.
In the Apsidal chapel
you will discover the treasure of the cathedral including the veil of
the virgin.
Returning to Paris, we
will pass through the medieval sections of the city of Chartres
Did you
know: The labyrinth symbolizes the path that leads man
from the earth
to heaven, the path where man will meet God.
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