Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris.

It is located on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. Its western facade dominates the square of Notre Dame - Jean-Paul II.

The construction is extended over many decades (two centuries), the style is not a complete uniformity: it has characters and early Gothic (sexpartite vaults of the nave) and the Gothic. Two roses that adorn each arm of the transept are among the largest in Europe, measuring 13 meters in diameter each. It was upon its completion one of the largest cathedrals in the West.

After the turmoil of the Revolution, the cathedral has undergone from 1844 to 1864 a major restoration and sometimes controversial led by the architect Viollet-le-Duc, who has incorporated elements and patterns that the monument left by the Middle Ages had never possessed.