But even outside this key period in the Roman Catholic calendar, the cathedral draws visitors all year, some 12 million of them. It is the most famous of the French Gothic cathedrals of the Middle ...

Above the front door of the dark Gothic ... cathedral in the country, and took 37 years to complete on a promontory that was once the site of robber baron Charles Crocker’s mansion. The rose ...

The most famous example of such tracery is the Gothic rose window, which, being roughly circular and appearing like the flower, today adorns the facades of thousands of cathedrals and churches ...

Images appear to show that Notre Dame's prized rose windows survived the mammoth ... of the damage is not yet known, the cathedral's two towers and gothic structure were spared.

The three rose windows ... about the windows. "These windows represent skilled craftsmanship and artistry and recall the magnificent art of the Gothic churches and cathedrals of England and ...

The Gothic cathedral ... stained-glass windows showcase a harmonious blend of divine inspiration and human craftsmanship that has captivated souls for centuries. They rose out of the Middle ...

Its most stunning windows are three massive floral- themed circles, called rose windows ... when they enlivened Gothic churches -- the Newark cathedral is considered of the French Gothic style ...

His high-tech approach to Gothic architecture ... At the Laon Cathedral in northern France, "I wanted to see the building right below the great eastern rose window," he says, but his tripod ...