A day and 2 nights in Chartres, France featuring the cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres) with its French Gothic architecture, labyrinth and well preserved stained glass windows, the market, the lower town and the studio of Nicolas Lorin, master glassmaker who died 1882, the many Lavoirs (wash houses) along the Eure river, the church of St Pierre – constructed about 1547, the amazing stained glass museum (centre international du vitrail), the musée des beaux arts and finally Chartres en Lumières when, from mid April to mid October 26 sites around Chartres are illuminated, some with elaborate moving images in and around the architecture

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