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Tall stone columns and pointed arches frame a glowing rose window.

France - Laon

2022 · France

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Tall stone columns and pointed arches frame a glowing rose window.Rows of wooden chairs and dark choir stalls flank the cathedral aisle.A statue of Joan of Arc stands behind a flower-decked white altar.A great rose window glows with red and blue stained glass.Deep blue stained glass fills the cathedral's apse windows.A rose window glows above the cathedral's pipe organ.A golden Stations of the Cross relief hangs on a stone wall.A lone figure stands silhouetted in a bright cathedral doorway.Tall organ pipes rise between the cathedral's pointed arches.Empty benches fill the nave beneath tall pointed arcades.An ornate gilded screen separates the choir from the altar.The cathedral's great rose window bursts in blue and red.Ribbed Gothic vault ribs radiate from a circular opening above the nave.Two blue stained-glass windows glow above a stone arcade in the nave.An ornate carved wooden pulpit stands between the cathedral's stone pillars.Two weathered stone towers with pinnacles rise against a clear blue sky.Gothic pinnacles rise beside a plain stone townhouse under a blue sky.Laon Cathedral's twin towers and rose window dominate the cobbled plaza.A rose window sits below the cathedral's tall twin towers.Three arched portals with carved tympanums front the cathedral's rose window.A weathered stone facade with shuttered windows above the Bruneteaux printing shop.A Gothic cathedral raises its twin stone towers over the old town.A Gothic cathedral sits above a grassy slope and a curving road lined with houses.Carved stone arches frame the cathedral's purple wooden doors.

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2022 France - Laon

General Laon is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France, and it is the prefecture of that department. It is known above all for its Gothic cathedral, and for the position of its old town, which rises about a hundred metres above the otherwise flat pla …