Key Highlight: Sainte-Chapelle, which took just seven years to build, is a treasured example of French Gothic architecture and originally held Christian artifacts acquired by Louis IX. Nowhere in ...

Despite covering just 22.5 hectares (around 56 acres), the island has played a huge part in the history of the capital.

It's the Sainte Chapelle, the palace church of the kings of France, built in the 1240s to house what were then the most precious objects in the world. And supreme amongst those objects was without ...

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame and the Sainte Chapelle are architectural masterpieces while Haussmann's wide squares and boulevards influenced late 19th- and 20th-century town planning the world over.

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame and the Sainte Chapelle are architectural masterpieces while Haussmann's wide squares and boulevards influenced late 19th- and 20th-century town planning the world over.

But the island has more to offer than just the cathedral. Nearby is Sainte-Chapelle, a 13th-century royal chapel built to house sacred relics. Its 15 huge stained-glass windows depict over 1,100 ...