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Notre Dame


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From the grinning gargoyles and flying buttresses to the corridors of the crypt, Notre Dame de Paris is one of the finest (and first) exampes of Gothic architecture in Europe. Understandably, then, it stands alongside the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe as quintessentially Paris, and simply cannot be missed. Dreamed up in the early twelfth century and completed in the mid-fourteenth, but still used today as a Roman Catholic church, the place is breathtaking, with "rose windows" of sparkling stained glass (called so due to the petals of glass spinning out from a central sphere), two massive towers that form the well-known Western Facade, a bell tower you can climb to the top of in order to gaze out at the city below, ornate statues of such legendary figures as Joan of Arc, and much, much more; even just the stunning curve of the interior vault (at roughly a hundred feet high) is enough to make it worth a visit.
 
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Overall Recommendation:
83%
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Reviews for Notre Dame

Jade submitted a review on 2006-03-30 15:00...
My suggestion for visiting the Notre Dame is not to tour it like you would the castles and museums, but instead to go during a mass. I'm not one that usually recommends church, but it definitely an experience listening to mass in multiple languages while gazing at the stained glass while the sun shines through the windows.