They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

On the Spanish island of Mallorca stands the "Palma Cathedral (The Cathedral of Santa Maria of Palma)," a structure so majestic it seems to take one’s breath away. Originally built as an Islamic ...

Gothic cathedrals were meant to overwhelm. And they do—even their secular-minded 21st-century visitors. Can we enter any other space in which ordinary sensory dimensions seem so stymied? Inside a ...

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring beastly grotesques back to life. Over the centuries, many of the stone details ...

Tucked away in the Picardie region of northern France, not far from Lille, Rouen, or even Paris, this city remains surprisingly under the radar. And yet, Amiens is full of fascinating history and a ...

Britain does do a good cathedral. Especially the medieval ones, which were designed to inspire, intimidate, absolve and awe.

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Critics say the emphasis on diversity and emotional expression risks translating a central mystery of the Church into the ...