Very few people could read back in the Middle Ages, so they told their Bible stories in the statues and stained glass windows of their cathedrals.

The decoration in the church was like their library.

Coming up, author Ken Fallett helps us appreciate the role cathedrals played at the heart of European towns,

and how we can still admire their attention to detail today,

even up on the roof. They thought the pinnacles on the roof had to be beautiful because God

could see them. It's their biggest holiday of the year. In a moment, we'll hear about the Easter

holiday traditions in Greece. The women will decorate the so-called epitaph that is a table with a canopy and symbolizing the tomb of Jesus.

While in southern Spain, they celebrate with elaborate processions in the streets of Seville.

It's an instinct of beauty. That's what we think life is made out of.

Put on your Easter bonnet and come along.

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

It's one of those rare years when both the Western and Eastern Orthodox Church calendars line up to place Easter on the same day.

So, coming up on Travel with Rick Steves, we'll hear how traditions for Holy Week

liven up the streets of Seville in Spain. And Ken Follett, who wrote The Pillars of the Earth,

shares how the magnificent cathedrals of Europe inspire him today. But let's start the hour

learning how they make the Easter holiday into a multi-generational high point of the year in Greece.

Anastasia Gaetano, from Thessaloniki is our guide.

Thank you. Glad to be here.

How is the Orthodox Easter distinct from the Western Easter, the Greek Orthodox Easter?

Well, first of all, is the date. It's the way we calculate when it has to be. So it could be on a different day than the

Western Easter? It can be on a different date. There is a reason, of course, because Easter is

always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox, which is just simply

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