European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

The history of Britain and the aspirations ... primarily blue as befits a cathedral with more coloured glass than any other in Europe.

Speyer Cathedral is historically, artistically and architecturally one of the most significant examples of Romanesque architecture in Europe. It is, by virtue of its proportions, the largest, and, by ...

how else can one describe the gutting of a building that stood witness to so much of Western European history? But in another sense, Notre Dame is one in a long line of cathedrals that have been ...

As a result, the Cathedral has emerged as an epitome of the history of European architecture in a single structure. As with many early structures, the bricks in the external walls vary in size and ...