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Must See
The Flamboyant Gothic
tracery of the rose
window was created
in the 16th century.
The colourful, light-
dappled interior of
Amiens’s lofty cathedral
Soaring 42 m (138 ft) high,
the brightly illuminated
interior is
a hymn to the vertical.
A double row comprising
22 elegant flying
buttresses supports
the construction.
The fabulously
flamboyant façade
of Amiens Cathedral
The 110 oak choir
stalls (1508–19) are Did You Know?
carved with over
4,000 figures. The head of John the
Baptist, housed here in
the cathedral, was lost
and replaced in the
19th century.
Vivid scenes from the lives
of St Firmin and St John
adorn the ambulatory.
Scenes from the Last
Judgment are featured
on the tympanum.
The flooring was laid
down in 1288 and
reassembled in the
late 19th century.
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