Who likes churches? We went to three churches, one was a neighborhood church by accident, the second was St Chapelle, one of the oldest medieval churches in Paris, and of course Notre Dame. We went to the ND treasury and saw the reliquary that held the crown of thorns. Of course you couldn't see anything. We also went to the Conciergery, where Marie Antoinette was held before she was beheaded. It was the seat of the old French gov (before Versailles) and was used as a prison during the French Revolution. Below are pics that include a stained glass window from St. Chapelle. One is of ND, and the other was from old Roman crypts underneath ND. The Romans built Paris before it was Paris...called Lutetia, around 27 BC to 47 AD. Pretty cool, and often missed because people don't think to visit crypts. I love that stuff. No rats, spiders or dead things involved.
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