Most people who visit Paris spend their days ticking off the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, and the Louvre. And fair enough. But just 20 minutes north of the city on Metro Line 13, there’s a cathedral that changed the history of architecture. It buried almost every French king for 900 years, and still holds a mummified…
If there is one statue guaranteed to make you stop and think in Paris, it is, of course, The Thinker in the garden of the Musée Rodin. It sits on a high plinth surrounded by box trees in the sculpture garden. It’s a showstopper all right. You’ve seen it on book covers, classroom walls, Instagram…
It wasn’t until I read the Pillars of the Earth book series by Ken Follett about a cathedral in a fictional town in England called Kingsbridge, that I had any interest in cathedrals. And, like anything, once you start digging deeper, you find some amazing history. This fantastic structure is so much more than a…
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