for a few hundred years at least !

https://www.cnn.com/style/live-news/macron-notre-dame-paris-reopening-11-29-24-intl/index.html


From inside Notre Dame, CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Melissa Bell saw the finished labors of the cathedral for the first time.

“As you walk in, what hits you is just how light and bright it is,” Bell said.

“You realize that before the fire, many centuries of worship and passage and life had meant that it was very dark. There was something really somber when you came inside. That has been completely transformed,” she said.

“It isn’t so much they’ve restored it to its glory of five years ago, but that they’ve restored it to its glory of many centuries ago.”

“It’s incredibly beautiful but it almost feels like a different cathedral,” Bell added. “You can see it for the first time.”

Thank you to everyone who worked on this. Beautiful!

Is anything? Would Jesus preach here?

"God" is a psychopathic monstrous, murderous asshole. I'm glad "He" doesn't actually exist.

I wept, so did my daughters. It wasn't because we felt we were in the presence of God. It was because we imagined the effort individuals made to create this building. I think of the planning and compromise, the cooperation that was needed to do the work. Yes, it was built for worship, but it is a constant reminder of what humans can do if they will work together, what greatness we are capable of creating with our own hands, our own vision.

To think that the Cologne cathedral could have easily been destroyed during the bombings in World War II. It would have been lost for all time, if it hadn't been for the heroic efforts of private citizens.

The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris survived the war, and so many centuries of various threats, only to succumb to that terrible fire 5 years ago.

because he admired the city. So the city was not as ruined as London was. hitler wanted to destroy Paris when his army was in retreat, but his general ignored him.

We were inLondon on the same trip, and visited St. Paul's Cathedral. Our guide in London said that London citizens valiantly worked to save the cathedral from german firebombs.

I hope that the spirit that moves us to work together to make these wonders, preserve them and defend them from destruction, will move us to defend ideas that are in danger right now.

I've been in love with the idea of going since I was a teen. It's been on my bucket list for years...

Since going back to college to finish my degree in Anthropology, now the caves @ lascaux are the biggies, but a little swing through paris would be lovely....sigh....

Hungry children and mothers that cash could have helped?

Beautifying our surroundings is a worthy endeavor.

And how many would have been killed if the money had gone to build bombs?

That's a lot of working-class families and their children. And think how many more will be helped by the workers who maintain the building and the shopkeepers, hoteliers, travel guides and assorted pickpockets sustained by future travelers including me?

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241129-live-macron-takes-world-on-first-tour-inside-paris-s-restored-notre-dame-cathedral

for several days! I had mentioned wanting to take a train to Paris.

Anyway, our hotel was near the Seine, and not far from from Notre Dame. We passed it a few times by bus. Pre-fire 2016.

Since she'd been there before she took us to near by St Chappelle. A smaller church but filled with many tall, skinny stained glass windows. Very beautiful with their colors cast upon the floor, and walls.

Very Happy to see Notre Dame restored to It's original brilliance!

Now, I'm going to have to take my hunch back.

for most misérable pun

I love how clean the cathedral ended up.

Takes longer than that to patch a pothole here.

And to think that beautiful structure was once used as a warehouse.