Notre dame
Dec 20, 2019 15:03
As the lights stay dim in the 855 year old Paris landmark, officials are trying hard to focus on the immediate task of keeping burnt-out Notre Dame’s spirit alive through service, song and prayer. read more
Jul 19, 2019 13:59
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
Jul 06, 2019 23:32
And how to manage absurdly small trips to overwhelming cities without turning into an Insta-obsessed, currency-converting, overachieving holiday zombie. read more
Jun 15, 2019 23:48
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
Apr 20, 2019 15:17
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
Apr 19, 2019 20:43
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
Apr 18, 2019 18:53
The IOC’s contribution joins donations totalling 850 million euros made since the landmark was gutted by fire on Monday evening. read more
Apr 18, 2019 01:37
The lesson it teaches us is we, together, are creators of beauty. Time is the architect, but people are the masons read more
Apr 17, 2019 17:45
“Twitter if you have any magic, help him find this,” US tourist Brooke Windsor tweeted. read more
Apr 17, 2019 11:34
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
Apr 17, 2019 09:56
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
Apr 16, 2019 18:44
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
Apr 16, 2019 16:07
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
Apr 16, 2019 09:16
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
Apr 16, 2019 07:47
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
