Notre-Dame Cathedral Exterior

Notre-Dame Cathedral is a vast stone building whose exterior architecture is innovative and designed to balance structural forces and prevent collapse. The architects employed many techniques that requiredgreat mastery, such as lightening the walls, incorporating large windows, placing buttresses and flying buttresses on the facades and crossing the ribs of the vaults.

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Watch Notre-Dame Reopening Live – December 7 & 8

Experience the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris live! Join us on December 7th and 8th for ceremonies streamed here. Don’t miss history in the making!