No: 2096
Access Public
Visible Yes
Name Old City ChartresType 1 Place Historic
Type 2 Location ChartresRegion Country France
Phone Web Video Month Rate Medium
Plan N
Done N
Comments Chartres' meticulously preserved old city is northeast and east of the cathedral along the narrow western channel of the River Eure, which is spanned by a number of footbridges. From rue Cardinal Pie, the stairways called Tertre St-Nicolas and rue Chantault – the latter lined with medieval houses (number 29 is the oldest house in Chartres) – lead down to the empty shell of the 12th-century Collégiale St-André, a Romanesque collegiate church closed in 1791 and severely damaged in the early 19th century and again in 1944. It is now an exhibition centre.