Underrated city with a cathedral more beautiful than Notre Dame just 4 hours from London Reims in Champagne is often overlooked by visitors to France in favour of other cities like Paris, Nice and ...

Notre Dame officially reopens on Dec. 7, ... Notre Dame is older than France itself. ... French kings had traditionally been coronated at Reims Cathedral in the Champagne region.

CNA Staff, Aug 1, 2024 / 15:11 pm. In anticipation of the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, seven French pilgrimages began on July 28 to meet at the medieval Catholic cathedral in September.

After the French Revolution and Napoleon’s concordat with the Holy See in 1801, Napoleon himself wanted a coronation as emperor of France, but in Notre Dame — not in Reims Cathedral, where ...

Claire Tabouret, 43, has been chosen to create contemporary stained-glass windows for the newly reopened Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, in collaboration with Reims-based glassmaking studio Simon ...

The king of France was anointed under the vaults of Reims cathedral, while from the 13 th century onward, "the dead body of the deceased king was displayed in Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral before ...