Spotlight
Tours
Register
at the Visitor Center inside the Cathedral. For further information
call the Public Education & Visitor Services Department at
(212) 932-7347. $10 per person; $8 per student/senior. Tours last approx. 1 hour.
Brilliant Walls of Light: Spotlight on Nave Windows III – Labor & Leisure
Sunday, September 7, 2 p.m.–3 p.m.
Celebrate Labor Day and the end of Summer with a tour that focuses on what we do and how we play. Join Senior Cathedral Guide John Simko to view artists and craftsmen in the Arts and Labor bays and ancient and modern athletes in the Sports Bay. See a medieval sawyer and a modern steelworker, Dante and Donatello, pugilists and pool cues.
Gateway to the New Jerusalem: Spotlight on the Iconography of the West Front
Sunday, September 28, 2 p.m.–3 p.m.
The west front is the architectural equivalent of an overture, an exposition of the themes developed within the main body of the Cathedral. The tour introduces the interplay of modern and medieval motifs in the sculpture of John Angel and Simon Verity. Led by Senior Cathedral Guide, Tom Fedorek.
The Stained Glass Menagerie: Spotlight on Animals
Sunday, October 5, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. Celebrate the Feast of St. Francis with with a tour focusing on the vast diversity of animal life that populates the windows and stones of the Cathedral. Senior Cathedral Guide John Simko helps you find a frog, an ape, and wolly mammoth, lean about the birds and the bees, and discover a saint riding on the back of a crocodile.
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