The Best Place to Travel in Paris
In the northern suburbs, is the best place to travel in Paris, the final resting place for most of the French copyright law for some time. Compared to other known sites in Paris, not many tourists who visit the church and, I believe, for two main reasons: they feel far away to visit (although in the Paris metro is connected), or simply never heard. If you do not be too surprised if you find that you are the one that exists.
Named after the second century AD, the Bishop of Paris, Saint Denis, who says he was beheaded on Montmartre, and then walking around his head in his hands, and then she died at where now stands the basilica of Saint – Denis.
If there had been a church on the site for centuries, began in the 12th century Abbott Suger in 1122 the beautiful church we know today. The result was a beautiful Romanesque façade with three portals with carved arches above, and the rest of the church in most cases is that the Gothic structure of the first of its kind anywhere. This was also the first church, Rosette characterize a glass.
The story of three ships is beautiful domed ceiling and stained glass has the highest level. Over the outer aisles are many tombs of kings and queens of the French past, and these graves are to be crowned with remarkable recumbent effigies of reconciliation of the monument, some of which are really parts of the Renaissance, but many of their recent. (You want the camera for that.)
During the French Revolution, wild crowd celebrating the opening of graves and scattered the remains real, which are then collected and stored in a common grave. They were later exhumed and an ossuary in the crypt of the stairs together. (Assume a flashlight, because this time, all the real names of most of the remains belong to them, badly lit). Fortunately, most graves were identified as works of art (by archaeologists Alexandre Lenoir) and prevents further damage.
The crypt (several hundreds of years older than the main church, above), with its huge columns supporting the vaults is quite disturbing. Find Cool black slabs mark the grave of Marie Antoinette and husband King Louis XVI, in the statues of kneeling in prayer in the church. There is also a relatively large space that could contain more heart in an urn of a mess. Elsewhere, you can see the Roman stone coffins placed randomly.
Finally, let me say what an attack could be a fascinating journey. And “one of the shrines and obsessions that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. For the moment, not as a visitor to visit Westminster Abbey in London, his counterpart.