Sainte-Chapelle: Inside the great Paris chapel

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

S is for Sainte-Chapelle. In this episode, I'll take you inside this ancient royal chapel with its incredible stained glass windows.

You'll hear from tour guide and Paris expert Amber Minogue, who gives us some insight into the 13th century chapel.

You'll also hear my own thoughts about visiting the Sainte-Chapelle on a VIP tour when it was completely empty. Those tickets are unavailable for the foreseeable future, but you can book their Sainte-Chapelle skip-the-line tour on this link.)

Mentioned in this episode:

Skip-the-line Sainte-Chapelle & Marie Antoinette’s Prison Medieval Tour. Book here.
Sainte-Chapelle address: 10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris.
Amber Minogue's podcast: Paname Podcast

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The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, find his Substack here.

Click here for our walking tours of Paris.

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0:00.0	This might be the first time someone's recorded a podcast inside the Saint-Chapelle when they're totally by themselves.
0:11.1	I'm walking down the main sort of avenue of this beautiful medieval church towards the chapel surrounded by stained glass windows.
0:25.6	And all I can hear is the echo of my own voice. Truly magical.
0:28.6	Kind of frightening too.
0:31.6	Hello.
0:34.6	Hello?
0:36.6	Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
0:38.3	This is the Eful Tower podcast and you're listening to the A-B
1:00.5	season, where S is for Saint-Chapelle. That was an original tune from our maestro, Press Maxen,
1:10.3	a little bit more on that original song
1:12.5	in a moment, but I want to set the scene for today's episode. It's a bit different. I went to the
1:18.6	St. Chappelle Gothic Church from the 13th century, and I visited without crowds. I was able to do
1:26.4	this because I was invited on a VIP tour by
1:30.2	Walks, Paris, a company that specializes in that kind of thing and they said, come and check it out.
1:37.6	I brought the photographer Augusta along. She took some amazing images of the church, probably
1:43.2	like you've never seen it before,
1:45.5	with me, a few with me in there just walking around kind of bamboozled in my own solitude.
1:52.3	And based on that visit, I researched a bit more about the Saint-Chapelle. I called up friend
1:58.8	of the show Amber Monogue from the Pan Am podcast, who does guided tours of not only the Louvre, but the San Chappelle.
2:05.9	And I sat down with her, weirdly enough, in the Saint-Paul Gardens, the Gerdin-Saint-Paul in the Marais.
2:14.5	We sat outside, freezing cold with blankets on our knees. It was the only
2:18.0	quiet place I could find in the Marais. And we talked about this amazing church. So that's what
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