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Notre-Dame de Chartres

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Chartres cathedral, seen in full from the south.
Chartres cathedral, seen in full from the south.
Chartres cathedral, front view (from the west)
Chartres cathedral, front view (from the west)

Chartres Cathedral (in French: Notre-Dame de Chartres, translates to Our lady of Chartres) is a Cathedral. It is in Chartres, about 80km south of Paris. It is built in Gothic style. Together with Amiens Cathedral and Reims Cathedral it is considered to be one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture (for Churches) in France. A church was inaugorated at the spot by Charles the Bald in the year 864. The cathedral as it stands now was built from 1194 to 1260. It was made a basilica minor in 1908. In 1964 it was made an UNESCO World Heritage site.

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