Notre dame - virtual visit
- Gina
- Apr 16, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 5, 2019
Yesterday and last night, fire ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral. Today, we mourn what we have lost. But all is not lost, and we will rebuild, but it will take at least a decade, and Notre Dame will never be the same. We have lost the medieval framework (wood) and other important elements as well as irreplaceable relics.
If you have never been inside Notre Dame de Paris, this virtual visit will at least allow you to have an idea of the beautiful interior before yesterday's fire. Click on the photo above to be taken to a Facebook link. Then click on the photo that you are taken to, and you will be taken to the original post on facebook which is a 360° view that you can navigate by dragging.
With love from Paris.
Popular interest in the cathedral blossomed soon after the publication, in 1831, of Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (better known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). This led to a major restoration project between 1844 and 1864, supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The liberation of Paris was celebrated within Notre-Dame in 1944 with the singing of the Magnificat. Beginning in 1963, the cathedral's façade was cleaned of centuries of soot and grime. Another cleaning and restoration project was carried out between 1991 and 2000.[9]