Sacre Coeur
Sacre-Coeur-Paris is located at the top of a hill of Montmartre and the five white marble domes and campanile can be seen from all over Paris. Inspired by churches in Constantinople and Venice, Sacre-Coeur has a Byzantine-Romanesque façade. The 40 year construction began in 1875. Because of the limestone quarries ...
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Paris Churches Share a Collective Memory
Paris churches share the collective memory and history of Paris. Here we find biographies of each neighborhood (arrondissement) of the city, collections of art, miraculous objects and tombs. Architectural designs, similarities and differences, and the stories told by the stained glass are two of the factors that draw me into ...
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Montmartre
Montmartre is a unique part of Paris that is untouched by the Haussmannian street reforms that you find in the city center. Here there are no wide sweeping boulevards. Instead there are the delightful climbing cobblestone streets of an urban village that are a delight to wander. Around Metro Abbesses Arriving at Abbesses ...
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Notre Dame de Paris – the Grand Lady of Paris
Notre Dame de Paris is located on the eastern end of Île de la Cité (an island in the middle of the Seine River) as shown on the map. The Île de la Cité is the part of Paris where the Kings once resided. Notre Dame de Paris was built between 1164 and 1375. This Gothic cathedral suffered from vandalism during the 1789 ...
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Exploration of the Gargoyles and Chimeras of Paris Notre-Dame
Read my story in French » Gargoyles and chimeras, sometimes called grotesques, date back to approximately the 12th century. On this page are specifically the gargoyles and chimeras of Notre Dame in Paris are the focus. However, you will find gargoyles on buildings all over Europe. However, some of what we think of as ...
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