Chartres

Chartres is a city of 39 thousand¹ located along the Eure River,² in an agricultural plain in the Eure-et-Loire Department of the Centre Region of France. The city is best known for its cathedral, which is a tourist site³ and is honored by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The 13th century church has 146 stained glass windows covering 1359 subjects, most of them original,⁴ and it was the first building to use flying buttresses.⁵

External references

cathedral at Chartres, Eure-et-Loire Department, Centre Region, France

Footnotes

1. Figure for 2010 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communes_in_France_with_over_20,000_inhabitants, accessed 2/5/2015.
2. A tributary of the Seine.
3. http://www.touropia.com/tourist-attractions-in-france/, accessed 2/9/2015.
4. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
5. Emporis.com, accessed 4/9/2015.