Gothic cathedrals are the actual books of stone, to pass on extraordinary knowledge that few people started to symbols and special codes, they could understand. They were built in Europe suddenly, around 1128 (the cathedral of Sens), just after the return of the Knights Templars from the Holy Land, with a technical skill in construction and architectural completely different from earlier Romanesque churches. One after another, rose the cathedral of Evreux, Rouen, Reims, Amiens, Bayeux, Paris, up to the triumph of the cathedral of Chartres.
built by Cistercian monks, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Chartres, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture presents a curious alignment to pramide of Cheops and the Castel del Monte.
Beautiful is the window to Saint Apollinaris, in which there is a hole through which on June 21, at noon, a ray of sunshine to hit a tile is metallic.
But more significant is the fact that the almond rose west, representing the Virgin in August has crossed by a ray of sunshine that is projected on a pink in the center of the labyrinth that is in this cathedral, as in other French cathedrals to represent the constellation Virgo.
Today the phenomenon occurs to the 20th of the month but it is estimated that in the beginning everything happened on 15 August, the day dedicated to Our Lady. The current gap is due to the progress of the precessional motion from the Middle Ages to the present.
A great symbol of Chartres is the labyrinth , which is a geometric figure of the twelfth century, inscribed in a circle on the floor width of the nave. Is a continuous path along 261.5 m going outside to inside the circle, with a succession of curves and arcs of concentric circles: a real symbolic path that leads man from the earth to God and the center of the figure represents just the city of God
The cathedral of Chartres has now the windows more important the XIII century, presenting a unique blue color. Including the rosettes, the 176 windows covering an area of \u200b\u200b2600 m². Mainly depict saints and biblical characters, Noah, Joseph, the Good Samaritan, the prodigal son, but also episodes of the Golden Legend by Jacopo da Varazze.
From the time of its construction, the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres is an important pilgrimage site for Catholics French. This explains the magnitude of the ambulatory that allows the passage of the faithful around the choir.
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