LATIN QUARTER, Sorbonne And Pantheon

On your itinerary dedicated to medieval architecture, you walked past two colossal, domed structures, which we will now discuss properly.

The first is the Chapelle de la Sorbonne, which is part of the vast and somewhat monotonous university building that was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century. The chapel faces the street, but I suggest admiring it from the vast internal courtyard.

Inspired by Roman Baroque style, it was built in the first half of the seventeenth century with the main purpose of creating a mausoleum around the tomb of Cardinal Richelieu. The great protagonist of European politics died seven years after the church's creation, which can boast being the first sacred building in Paris with a masonry dome.

The chapel's interior was plundered during the French Revolution, but there are still important works from the seventeenth century: firstly Richelieu's grandiose tomb in black and white marble, and the Doctors of the Church painted by Philippe de Champaigne, which depicts the four saints Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great.

Continuing uphill, you'll reach the top of the hill dedicated to Saint Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris. Surrounded by a round of columns, you can see the splendid white dome of the Pantheon that was built in the second half of the 18th century and is a masterful example of the rising Neoclassicism....