The first stone of the Strasbourg Cathedral was laid 1,000 years ago. Yet new evidence shows that baptisms were performed here even earlier, in Late Antiquity. Bishop Werner von Habsburg got one thing ...

An exhibition at the Met highlights the art of Gothic drawings—remarkably meticulous designs for a range of astonishing ...

The crypt at Strasbourg Cathedral isn't how I'd imagined it. I'd expected something richly atmospheric, sepulchral, a space stuffed with the accumulated religious ephemera of more than eight centuries ...

STRASBOURG, FRANCE—The crypt at Strasbourg Cathedral isn’t how I’d imagined it. I’d expected something richly atmospheric, sepulchral, a space stuffed with the accumulated religious ephemera of more ...

STRASBOURG : The stained glass at a cathedral in eastern France will no longer produce a distinctive green ray seen just twice a year, on the spring and autumn equinoxes, after the precise pane was ...

When President Barack Obama visited Strasbourg, France to attend a NATO Summit in 2009, he spoke at a town hall meeting on the eve of the Summit. On that occasion, he remarked: “Strasbourg has been ...

19:10, Sun, Jan 18, 2026 Updated: 19:14, Sun, Jan 18, 2026 A pretty city in Europe is home to a cathedral that is “more beautiful than Notre Dame”. Strasbourg is the largest city of the Grand Est ...