Saint-Gatien Cathedral, Tours
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Tours: Main Attractions
9 attractions · 7h 7min · transit route
Tickets ~€27.4
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About Saint-Gatien Cathedral
Tours Cathedral was built over four centuries, from the 1170s to 1547, and displays the full evolution of French Gothic architecture in a single building. The choir dates from the 13th century with early Gothic ribbed vaults, while the nave features elaborate Flamboyant Gothic tracery from the 14th-15th centuries. The two 70-meter towers are topped not with traditional spires but with Renaissance lantern domes, completed in the early 16th century using local tuffeau limestone.
Saint-Gatien Cathedral — Planning Your Visit
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The medallion window style developed at Tours around 1265 proved so influential that it spread to Troyes Cathedral, then across France, and eventually to England. Art historians consider Tours one of the key centers of Gothic glazing innovation, on par with Chartres and Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
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