A precious vestige of the royal palace of the City, the Sainte-Chapelle was built in the middle of the 13th century by Louis IX, the future Saint Louis, to house the most prestigious relics of the Passion of Christ: the Crown of Thorns and the fragment of the True Cross.
Completed in less than 7 years, a record time, the Sainte-Chapelle is designed as a piece of goldsmithery, whose walls of light exalt the Capetian monarchy and the kingdom of France.
Damaged during the Revolution, the former Palatine Chapel became a laboratory for the restoration of historical monuments in the nineteenth century. The stained glass windows of the 1113 scenes of the Old and New Testaments tell the story of the world, according to the Bible, until the arrival of relics in Paris in the 13th century.