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May 8, 2024 · The address of Reims Cathedral is Place du Cardinal Luçon, 51100 Reims, France, a 15-minute walk from the train station. The Cathedral is open daily from 7.30 am to 7.30 pm (except during services). Check current opening times here. It is free to visit Reims Cathedral.
Video transcript. (upbeat piano music) - [Steven] We're in the square in the city of Reims in France looking at one of the great Gothic cathedrals. - [Beth] Everything seems to reach heavenward. - [Steven] It's pierced everywhere. - [Beth] As we look at it, it hardly feels like stone, it has a weightlessness.
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Additionally, Reims was the “Coronation Capital,” so to speak, the traditional location for the coronation of French kings. It was also home to a magnificent high Gothic cathedral, Notre-Dame de Reims. By early September, the French had forced the Germans to retreat and though the French regained the town, the Germans stayed close by for ...
Aug 18, 2023 · How to visit Reims Cathedral. The Cathedral of Reims is easily one of the most beautiful cathedrals in France. A guided visit costs €8 for an adult entry ticket, though concessions cost less. Open every day of the week, the ecclesiastical building is typically open between 7:30 AM and 7:30 PM.
Reims Cathedral is simply jaw-dropping. Whether it’s the extraordinary height of the ceiling (38m), the monumental length of the building (138m), some of the greatest stained glass anywhere in Europe, the statuary both in and outside the West end, the astonishing flying buttresses (High Gothic engineering genius combined with elegant architecture to enable such an astonishing ceiling height ...
A Place of Historical Importance. It was at the Reims Cathedral in 496 AD that Clovis was baptized by the bishop of Reims, Saint-Rémi, who anointed the Carolingian King with an ointment that came from Sainte-Ampoule. The same concoction was used for the coronation of Kings, thus becoming a tradition in Reims until the reign of Charles X in 1825.
"La Basilique Saint-Remi à Reims et sa remise en état." Monuments historiques de la France 5 (1959): 1-25. Abbaye de Saint-Remi de Reims (Reims France), and Gaston Robert. Les fiefs se Saint-Remi de Reims depuis ;e Xve siècle jusqu'en 1550. Reims, Paris,: L. Michaud; A. Picard, 1913. Beumann, Helmut.
