Paris Day Trips: Chartres

Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007

After Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris, the Chartres Cathedral may be one of the most well known French Gothic cathedrals because of its extraordinary ‘Chartres bleu’ stained glass.

From Paris, it’s easy to get to Chartres. All you have to do is hop on the train at Montparnasse train station.Round trip from Paris to Chartres costs approximately 26 Euros and takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The SNCF site will create your personal train schedule for the date you choose to travel.

You can visit the Cathedral in Chartres and return to Paris in the same day. If you were fascinated by the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, I can only urge you to continue on to Chartres. It’s soaring arches, replenished with the glow of blue light seems lighter and more joyful than Notre Dame. Slowly, but surely, the austerity of Paris drops away for the lightheartedness of the harvest season in Chartres.

Go to the top of Chartres Cathedral’s roof - and perhaps you will catch site of Babette’s sabot. See future post Babette’s sabot in October’s posts.

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