Abbaye Saint-Père-en-Vallée

This is our third time visiting Chartres and even though this wasn’t a planned visit. It is a beautiful city and well worth a walk around.
We set off through the park at 5pm and Chartres is one of those typical French cities that comes alive in the evening and everyone was coming out and heading into town, we couldn’t believe how busy it was and the amount of shops still open.
We followed the Chartres de Luminares path, which is a tour that starts at dusk and runs through until 2am every night where you follow a row of lights on the floor around promenant landmarks in the city. The self guided tour takes in the Basilica of Chartres and the world famous Chartres cathedral and many of the ancient medieval buildings and streets and it is lit up at night with holograms. We’ve seen the holograms twice already and we just settled on the non illuminated tour this time.Read more