"Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens"

The Cathedral's builders maximized the internal dimensions in order to reach for the heavens and bring in more light. As a result, Amiens Cathedral is the largest in France, large enough to contain two cathedrals the size of Notre Dame of Paris.

 The three rose windows each represent a different period of the cathedral's construction. The rose window on the west facade is the oldest, from 1221 to 1230, from the High Gothic period, and represents Jesus Christ surrounded by the symbolic figures of the Apocalypse. The rose window of the north transept has the characteristic radiating tracery of the Rayonnant Gothic. The rose window of the south transept is the latest, from 1489 to 1490, with the curves and reverse curves of the late Gothic Flamboyant style. It depicts fourteen angels, heads towards the centre of the window, in a style characteristic of the Picard style of window in the 15th century.