Amiens Cathedral is State-owned and managed in part by the Centre for National Monuments (a public body under the authority of the Ministry of Culture), the territorial collectivity and the clergy.

Painted several times by Claude Monet, the spire of the cathedral in Rouen, France, has caught fire. Firefighters managed to put out the blaze without any major damage to the building.

The small, shiny aluminum cable cars swayed in an endless, airy line high above the Alpine stillness of the Vallee Blanche. On either side the passengers could see the granite buttresses and ...

The Gothic cathedral—from St.-Denis and Notre-Dame of Paris to Chartres, Reims, and Amiens—stands out for a reason. Their flying buttresses, lofty towers, and subaqueous stained-glass windows ...

A fire broke out on Thursday on the spire of a cathedral in Rouen, France, local emergency officials said.

The blaze appeared to cause minimal damage to the cathedral in Rouen, France, but measures were taken to protect its precious objects from any water damage.

The fire that broke out Thursday in the spire of the cathedral in the northern French city Rouen has been extinguished, local fire services said, with no major damage reported.

The significant number of reports prepared by the UNESCO Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee represents an exceptional documentation on numerous conservation issues. It ...