Medieval Gothic cathedral was born according to the documents in Saint Denis, suburb of Paris today. In 1136, Abbot Suger, clergyman, decided to rebuild the Carolingian Church. It started with the introduction of a new architectural element on a facade, a rose window. The rest is history.
When craftsmen, masons and sculptors turned to look work done, embroideries and stained glass cathedral shining light and they know that it looks the paradise.
French spirit had a tremendous expansion, conquered Sicily and England, trying to expand in Egypt and North Africa. France had allowed to build bridges, aqueducts and ogival vaults rise to dizzying heights.
Across France, villages and cities dwellers wanted to have the most beautiful and high church, came to see the craftsmen masons, to learn and ask to rise in their setllements above all bronze bells.
Spanish cities called the French architects and artisans French arrived in Poland or Finland.
Cathedrals of Reimes, Chartres, Beauvais, Notre Dame drew over Europe.
