Heritage Days - Cathedral tours on September 16 and 17

For the Journées du Patrimoine and as every year, the cathedral welcomes you and offers free tours led by by guides from the Cathedral Visitor Service:

– Saturday September 16: at 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm – duration 1 hour
– Sunday September 17: at 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 and 5:00 pm – duration 1 hour

These tours, in French only, are entirely free of charge!
Please go to the store in the cathedral (map here) to collect your ticket.
Our guides will be wearing blue scarves.

No visits to the crypt on these days.

Further information by e-mail or on 02 37 21 75 02.

A World Heritage Site, Chartres Cathedral has preserved its 176 stained glass windows (most of which date from the mid-12th and early 13th centuries) and 9 sculpted portals. Its architecture, sculpted decor and stained glass windows bear witness to the Christian faith, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic art and the birth of a new humanism that would leave its mark on the West.

PROGRAM for these discovery tours of the cathedral:
Architecture, stained glass and sculpture: the essentials
Our tour guides will give you the keys to understanding the cathedral’s deeper meaning – the scope of its images, its technical feats and its artistic ideas.
Construction methods, stories from the Bible, the history of the cathedral: 60 minutes on architecture, statuary and stained glass. An “open door” to over 5,000 characters…