Monday, May 21, 2007

Saint Chapelle











While in Paris, we broke our usual routine of seeing two sites per day. We instead tried to pack into the few days we were there as we could. So brings on the next site: Saint Chapelle. It is a small little church that is near a government building so we got to go through a metal detector before we could get in! When walking in, I was quite disappointed because it is this tiny building. However, it is more impressive once you go upstairs. :)

So, Saint Chapelle was built in the 1240's to house relics from the Holy Land. The gothic church has very intricate stained glass in the chapel upstairs. In fact, the walls are covered in them and can be difficult to see what scenes we depicted.

2 comments:

laurie said...

your saint chapelle pictures aren't loading. not sure why.

Heidirific said...

Sorry about the pictures not working. I was having blogger trouble when publishing the post. I don't know how to get rid of the boxes where the original pictures were since they don't show up on my editor but the pictures are there at least...