A path of spiritual discovery has arrived for students at Chapman University. The Fish Interfaith Center now has a 36-foot-wide painted canvas replica of the Chartres Labyrinth in France. Students ...

About 80 kilometers southwest of Paris stands the city of Chartres, one of whose main cultural attractions is its Gothic cathedral built between 1194 and 1220. It was built in the same place where ...

The following local sites and noteworthy locations within an hour or so of Washington offer labyrinths open to the public for quiet meditation. Most indoor locations provide labyrinth guidelines or ...

DONNA VARNAU fell in love with Chartres Cathedral when she lived in France years ago. She was so smitten with its famous labyrinth that she replicated its design in the back garden of her Edmonds home ...

The voices of vacationers partying at cafes faded as I left Chartres' picture-postcard main square and entered the dusky nave of the cathedral. Blinking until my eyes adjusted, I stared up at dozens ...

CHARTRES, France — I was hooked on this small hilltop town when I heard about the river jousting. Gazing down from the center of town, I was tracing the curves of a long-demolished Roman amphitheater.

The labyrinth is an ancient idea made new. The spiral design has been around since before recorded history, though no one is sure where the pattern originated or why. In Neolithic times, labyrinths ...