Sainte-Chapelle or Holy Chapel. WOW WOW WOW!!! – Paris France – ECTV
Hey everybody, this is Eric Clark Travel Videos and I’m in Paris, France and I’m going to St. Chappelle and the line is heinous and getting a ticket’s kind of tough but you can do it. Um, but the line is really pretty long. Let’s go look at that and I will go inside in a second. Here we go. So, this is like part of the line and you can see over there where it says St. Chappelle and this is the entrance right here. Um, but let me show you the line too. This is the line and it goes on and on and it’s really confusing because one line is for tickets, one line is for no tickets. Um, there’s another line for people buying tickets or wanting scalping. I don’t I don’t know it all. I, you know, you can’t read French, but the line is just crazy, crazy, crazy. And there it’s just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. But let me get past this and I’ll show you what this looks like down the line here. It is crazy. Yeah, it’s nuts. Okay, I’ll be back everybody. Bye. All right, everybody. So, I’m at St. Chappelle and this is it behind me. But I just want to talk about the security system. It’s just like an airport. You have to go through everything comes off. Everything, jacket and everything. Um, everything comes out of your wallet. You go in one of those booths. They scan you. They frisk you, you know. and I have a had a surgery and so I have a pin so I had to get scanned again and oh my gosh it’s crazy but let’s take a look here and this is St. Chappelle and it’s next to um the government building. Um but uh looks like they’re doing construction on the outside of it. Um and this is what it says. Exhibition the spire blah blah blah. What is the spire? and hit pause as you need to everybody because I can’t sit here and do this. And that’s what it looks like. Uh wow. Pretty amazing. And there’s more to it, too. Sorry. You’re fine. You’re fine. I just going to take pictures of it. Thank you. Merci. Wow, there’s lots of information on the outside here. Um, an exemplar restoration. Look at the 18 there. Hit pause if you need to. Did you guys read all those? You know, on my little tiny screen that’s 3/4 of an inch by 3/4 of an inch. I can’t I can’t tell if you could read that if you had to, but uh looks pretty amazing. Anyway, and here again, the fifth and last spire. Let me get it up there to where you can read it good. And oops, I recentered my camera there just to make sure I’m on track. Hit pause as needed, everybody. Wow. Pretty amazing. Okay, let’s move on. All right, well, let’s just skip all that and let’s get to the church. There’s lots of reading. I mean, every one of these signs has something to say about it and the history of it and blah blah blah and everything else. And St. Chappelle entrance is this way. And that’s the front. And I’m sure it’s going to be crowded and crazy. And this is where we are. St. Chapelle. Okay. And I think you have to go through security one more time. Okay. Well, I got to go through this. So, I’ll be back. Bye. All right, everybody. This is St. Chapa. It certainly is ornate and it certainly is crowded. Oh, this can’t be it, can it? I’m sorry. Did I just say those words? Um, What does it say about it? It says uh copy of the stone statues with a trace of color from the chatau man whatever and dated to the early 14th century which is now kept at the spark parish blah blah blah St. Chappelle was commissioned by Henley 12:42. Hit pause if you want to read all that. Let me click on that light spot and see if we can get it to dim it for you. And it looks like it’s just And so the flying buttresses are on the inside of the outside, which is kind of interesting. Huh? Let’s go over to this. I just want to read this thing. Um, 19th century stone, the sculpture decorating the elements of the 18th. Hit pause if you want to read that. I’ll get out of everybody’s way because it’s everybody’s like right here trying to take a picture. Wow. Okay. So, Huh. It looks like they added these columns, these gray ones, for support to keep that roof up. Huh? What do these say? So, the original pieces were these, I guess. Is that what I’m saying? Um, the original elements of the two portals of St. Okay. What’s this one down here? Okay. Doric, lentil of the upper character. Hit pause if you need to read this, too. Oh, that’s this column. Huh. Okay. Well, let’s move on. The stained glass is pretty. It kind of looks like an eye, doesn’t it? Now, one of the biggest and best pieces of work here are these. So, these are um from 900 BC. They’re strollers, and they were invented by the king of Prussia back in uh Methusela’s time. No. Get out of here. They’re just part of the part of the artwork, I guess. Huh. Wow. I I I guess this is it. What’s up the stairs? Is there anything up the stairs? What does this say? It says uh Uh, visit this way. Well, let’s go up the stairs, I guess. And the steps are uneven and funky, too. That’s kind of weird. And so, anyway, so I don’t know. I guess people are struggling with this. I think this is going to be a long walk. Oh, okay. So, we get up to here. Oh, okay. You can’t go that way. Oh my gosh. Okay, now the sweet spot. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Wow. Wow. Wow. You know, it’s funny. I was thinking the the bottom was it, but it really isn’t. It’s the stained glass that uh is the bomb. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Okay. Now it becomes a little bit better. Wow. Huh. I wonder why the mirror thing is here. Work in progress. Oh, I say. Oh, no. Look at that statue. How you doing? Okay, never mind. Oh, is it just so you can see the work? Huh. Interesting. Let’s get to the altar. Excuse me. Thanks, man. Get out of everybody’s way here. You’re fine, bro. I’m sorry. No, you’re good. It’s crazy tourist day. And I’m one of them. It’s all right. I thought the downstairs was it, but this is amazing. Wow. I don’t think you understand. So, let’s just look at this. So, this is probably a a 20ft thing and then the rest of it for the next 80 90 ft is all stained glass all the way up. And what’s interesting and there’s no walls. It’s all stained glass. Plus those uh Wow. Wow. Oh my gosh. And look behind you, too. Wow. That’s amazing. Wow. Wow. Okay, I’m getting it. I’m getting it. That’s incredible. Wow. Can I get my camera to zoom? You know, when I come back as the next person, I want smaller fingers so I can hit the button. Dang. Sometimes I can hit it and sometimes you couldn’t hit it to save your life. So, I can’t zoom in on that at all, but oh well. Amazing. And look at the people, too. It’s Pretty crazy and full. Wow. Wow. Truly amazing. Wow, look at the stained glass. Let me click my uh screen here and see if I can get my camera to focus on the stained glass a bit. Wow. Exodus. Wow. Wow. Look at the doors, too. The doors are amazing. Thanks, man. Muku. Thank you. Wow. And look at the locks, too. Wow. Very cool. All right, everybody. I guess that’s enough. I think you get a half an hour in here and that’s it. And then it’s time to go. And you can see every little thing has a little better. Wow. Okay, everybody. Amazing. I’m going. If there’s anything else I see that’s amazing, I’ll get back to you. And I’m sure I’m missing 100,000 things here, but uh pretty incredible. Fire ready.
The Sainte-Chapelle (French: [sɛ̃t ʃapɛl]; English: Holy Chapel) is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France.
Construction began sometime after 1238 and the chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248.[2] The Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture. It was commissioned by King Louis IX of France to house his collection of Passion relics, including Christ’s claimed Crown of Thorns – one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom. This was later held in the nearby Notre-Dame Cathedral until the 2019 fire, which it survived.[3]
Along with the Conciergerie, Sainte-Chapelle is one of the earliest surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité. Although damaged during the French Revolution and restored in the 19th century, it has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained glass collections anywhere in the world.
The chapel is now operated as a museum by the Centre des monuments nationaux, along with the nearby Conciergerie, the other remaining vestige of the original palace.
History
Construction of France
Sainte-Chapelle was inspired by the earlier Carolingian royal chapels, notably the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne at his palace in Aix-la-Chapelle (now Aachen). It was built in about 800 and served as the oratory of the Emperor. In 1238 Louis IX had already built one royal chapel, attached to the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This earlier chapel had only one level; its plan, on a much grander scale, was adapted for Sainte-Chapelle.[4]
The two levels of the new chapel, equal in size, had entirely different purposes. The upper level, where the sacred relics were kept, was reserved exclusively for the royal family and their guests. The lower level was used by the courtiers, servants, and soldiers of the palace. It was a very large structure, 36 meters (118 ft) long, 17 meters (56 ft) wide, and 42.5 meters (139 ft) high, ranking in size with the new Gothic cathedrals in France.[4]
In addition to serving as a place of worship, the Sainte-Chapelle played an important role in the political and cultural ambitions of King Louis and his successors.[5][6] With the imperial throne at Constantinople occupied by a mere Count of Flanders and with the Holy Roman Empire in uneasy disarray, Louis’ artistic and architectural patronage helped to position him as the central monarch of western Christendom, the Sainte-Chapelle fitting into a long tradition of prestigious palace chapels. Just as the Emperor could pass privately from his palace into the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, so now Louis could pass directly from his palace into the Sainte-Chapelle. More importantly, the two-story palace chapel had obvious similarities to Charlemagne’s palatine chapel at Aachen (built 782–805)—a parallel that Louis was keen to exploit in presenting himself as a worthy successor to the first Holy Roman Emperor.[7] The presence of the fragment of the True Cross and crown of thorns gave enormous prestige to Louis IX. Pope Innocent IV proclaimed that it meant that Christ had symbolically crowned Louis with his own crown.
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