Notre dame

Parisians are used to tourists, but mass tourism is beginning to annoy the residents of the City of Love, especially around landmarks like Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre museum. read more

And how to manage absurdly small trips to overwhelming cities without turning into an Insta-obsessed, currency-converting, overachieving holiday zombie. read more

Almost $1 billion was promised by some of France’s richest and most powerful families and companies, some of whom sought to outbid each other, in the hours and days after the inferno read more

The city of Paris, its streets and landmarks, have held a special role as the artistic center of the industry since its earliest days, so to restore what has been lost is to preserve its own history. read more

An arched entrance flanked by two towers, elaborate carvings and a broad-aisled nave: a 5th century limestone church in northwestern Syria is the architectural forerunner of France’s famed Notre-Dame cathedral. read more

The IOC’s contribution joins donations totalling 850 million euros made since the landmark was gutted by fire on Monday evening. read more

The lesson it teaches us is we, together, are creators of beauty. Time is the architect, but people are the masons read more

“Twitter if you have any magic, help him find this,” US tourist Brooke Windsor tweeted. read more

Some were lost to humanity forever in the blaze that ravaged the Paris cathedral Monday. Others were spared, at least in part, or saved before the flames consumed the roof and spire. read more

The process of restoring the gutted landmark will face substantial challenges — starting immediately, with the urgent need to protect the inside of the 850-year-old cathedral from the elements, after its timber-beamed roof was consumed by flames . read more

Built 544 years before Gustave Eiffel completed the Eiffel tower to commemorate hundred years of the French Revolution, The Notre-Dame (Our Lady in French) cathedral is considered the original symbol of Paris. read more

Bollywood stars such as Malaika Arora, Rishi Kapoor, Swara Bhasker and Raveena Tandon among others took to social media to express their shock and grief at the loss of world heritage. read more

The moment the spire folded over into the building engulfed in flames amid plumes of white smoke billowing into the sky was captured in a video as onlookers gasped at the sight. read more

Macron expressed relief that “the worst had been avoided” in a blaze that had at one point threatened the entire edifice, and left France in shock over the damage to a building described as the soul of the nation. read more

In a statement sent to AFP the CEO of the Kering group, which owns Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent fashion houses, said the money towards “the effort necessary to completely rebuild Notre-Dame” would be paid by the Pinault family’s investment firm Arte... read more