What are the characteristics of Gothic Style in architecture?

Gothic Style in architecture has several characteristics which help us understand and recognize a gothic building from a romanic building, for example.

the main characteristics are:

  • pointed archs: this is probably the main characteristic of Gothic architecture. Every gothic build
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