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Europe’s Great Gothic Cathedrals Weren’t Built Just of Concrete The designers and builders of Europe’s great Gothic cathedrals weren’t actually so innovative. Laura Clark.
While the great churches of Continental Europe developed in a succession of styles, England’s for the most part remained Gothic. ‘Interior of Ely Cathedral’ (1797) by J.M.W. Turner.
Great churches are built on the site of previous great churches, which were built on foundations of pagan temples. ... But the great cathedrals of Europe took centuries to build, ...
Walk into St. Joseph Co-Cathedral at 721 Canal Boulevard in Thibodaux, and you might feel as if you’re overseas.
Visiting Europe's great cathedrals is no doubt a moving experience, regardless of one's religiosity, but the crowds and ...
When Europe’s great cathedrals were built over a thousand years ago, they, too, were at the forefront of science. Their size, their height and their sheer complexity were the very embodiment of ...
In Spain some cathedrals—such as the 13th-century cathedral of Toledo—were built over the site of mosques, to hammer home the symbolism that Spain was now a Christian country. Cathedrals of Europe ...
Travel writer, television host and Edmonds resident Rick Steves recently finished a two-year-long project — producing a six-hour public television miniseries called “Rick Steves Art of Europe ...
But great and small, all are acts of love, of willing the good of the other and stone by figurative stone, they surely will build a cathedral over one’s lifetime.