Sainte Chapelle

After a breakfast of fresh baguettes and jam we headed out to the Metro to travel to Sainte Chapelle.

The Metro maps make it really easy to work out which train you need to catch. The first train we caught was really old and if you didn't know how many stops you needed to travel then you could've been stuck. The second train was a lot more modern and had signs letting you know what the next stop was. However, the trainline name on the train was in the opposite direction which had some people quite confused!!

What was quite amusing is the use of paper train tickets! Not even ole Adelaide is this antiquated. In saying that the Metro was very easy to travel on.

Our first stop for the day was Sainte Chapelle which was commissioned by St Louis in the 1300's.

The amazing thing about this church is the stained glass windows with each column dipicting stories from a different book of the bible. There is a column which depicts the lineage of the house of Jesse as St Louis saw himself as a rightful descendent of that family!!Read more