European Cathedrals
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Bourges Cathedral
ブールジュ · FR
The first High Gothic cathedral south of the Loire — five portals, five aisles, one masterpiece
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Salisbury Cathedral
ソールズベリー · GB
England's tallest 123 m spire guards the finest surviving Magna Carta original
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
ソフィア · BG
Five gilded domes inscribing prayer on the Balkan sky — Sofia's Neo-Byzantine memorial
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg
ストラスブール · FR
Pink Vosges sandstone soaring skyward — a 142-metre single-towered Gothic cathedral
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Bagrati Cathedral
クタイシ · GE
The cathedral that lost its World Heritage status — Georgia's medieval icon rebuilt on Kutaisi hill
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Helsinki Cathedral
ヘルシンキ · FI
A neoclassical white cathedral crowned by a green dome and twelve apostles — the face of Finland.
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Rouen Cathedral
ルーアン · FR
Three towers, three centuries — the French Gothic compendium that Monet painted thirty times
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Burgos Cathedral
ブルゴス · ES
Spain's only standalone UNESCO World Heritage cathedral, a pure French Gothic gem in Castile.
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Notre-Dame d'Amiens
アミアン · FR
France's tallest Gothic vault and largest interior, built in just fifty years
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Speyer Cathedral
シュパイアー · DE
Where eight Holy Roman emperors sleep — the largest surviving Romanesque basilica in red sandstone
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Reims Cathedral
ランス · FR
Where 25 French kings were crowned — the High Gothic forest of stained glass at Reims
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St. Vitus Cathedral
フラッチャニ · CZ
Coronation seat of Bohemia — six centuries of Gothic, crowned by Mucha's Art Nouveau stained glass
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Basilica of Saint-Denis
サン＝ドニ · FR
Where Gothic was born and French kings sleep eternally — cradle of an architectural revolution
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Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
ハモーヴニク · RU
Destruction and resurrection — Russian Orthodoxy's soul carved into a 103-meter golden dome
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St. Stephen's Cathedral
インネレシュタット · AT
The Habsburg coronation church and Vienna's defining Gothic spire piercing the sky at 136 metres
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Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
コルドバ · ES
Where Islam meets Christianity — a forest of red-and-white double arches on the UNESCO list
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Saint Sophia Cathedral
キーウ · UA
Beneath gilded onion domes, a thousand years of prayer at the cradle of Kyivan Rus
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Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
ローマ · IT
The Pope's own cathedral and the mother church of all Catholic Christendom
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Seville Cathedral
セビリア · ES
The world's largest Gothic cathedral, where Columbus rests and Spain's glory endures
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St Mark's Basilica
Venezia-Murano-Burano · IT
A Byzantine jewel ablaze in gold mosaic — mirror of a thousand years of Venetian Republic glory
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Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
サンティアゴ・デ・コンポステーラ · ES
The Romanesque World Heritage cathedral over Saint James's tomb, terminus of the Camino de Santiago
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Aachen Cathedral
アーヘン · DE
Where Charlemagne sleeps — Northern Europe's oldest dome and a founding UNESCO site
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Canterbury Cathedral
カンタベリー · GB
Where Becket fell — the mother church of Anglicanism and a 1,400-year UNESCO pilgrimage
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Florence Cathedral
フィレンツェ · IT
The dome that opened the Renaissance — Brunelleschi's masonry colossus, still the world's largest
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Notre-Dame de Chartres
シャルトル · FR
High Gothic perfected — the miracle cathedral where 152 medieval stained-glass windows still glow
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St Paul's Cathedral
ロンドン · GB
Risen from the Great Fire — Sir Christopher Wren's English Baroque crown atop Ludgate Hill
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Milan Cathedral
ミラノ · IT
135 marble spires and the golden Madonnina crown the world's largest Gothic forest of stone
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Cologne Cathedral
ケルン · DE
157-meter twin spires over six centuries of construction, the apex of German Gothic
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Westminster Abbey
シティ・オブ・ウェストミンスター · GB
Site of every English coronation since 1066, the medieval Gothic mausoleum of Britain's monarchy
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Notre-Dame de Paris
4区 · FR
On the Île de la Cité, the absolute canon of 12th-century French Gothic and a symbol of resurrection