Special correspondent in Troyes (Aube)
With 350 churches and buildings retaining religious or civil stained glass windows, 9,000 m of stained glass dating from before 1789, and 2,048 protected bays, Aube knew for a long time that it had a card to play.
It is now done with a new Cité du stained glass installed in the former Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte, in the heart of Troyes.
With an investment of 15 million euros, and a surface area of 3,000 m, it is the second largest center in France dedicated to stained glass, after that of Chartres.
Designed as a place of exhibition but also of research, this city presents stained glass windows removed due to restoration or destruction of their original building.
The pieces come from all over France, and cover a period from the 12th century to today.
It was not easy to present this art which, in principle, does not go without natural light - in the past, stained glass windows in churches not only had the function of telling the Bible in pictures, but…
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