Saint-Denis
Basilica
Rue de la
Légion d’Honneur 1, 93200 Saint-Denis, 10 km ten noorden van Parijs
Bus 156ab Porte de la Chapelle, Underground: Basilique de Saint-Denis,
tel : (0) 1 48 09 83 54
Daily 10am-6.15pm in summer, 10am-5.15pm in winter.
Sunday only till
12am.
The
basilica from the 12th century is not only a leading example of the
Gothic, it is also the place where almost all French kings were crowned
and buried. For many centuries it was the spiritual center of France. In
the 5th century a church was built here and as the legend goes, it is
where Saint Dionysus walked around with his head under his arm, after he
had been decapitated at Montmartre.
Not only the basilica, but the tombstones of the kings are quite
spectacular as well.
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