Spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
by Alexios Ntounas
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Spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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Alexios Ntounas
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Description
The Spire of Notre Dame was located above the cross-section of the cathedral's transept. It was the second Spire of the cathedral and it was put into place by the French Architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859. Unfortunately it was destroyed in a major fire on 15 April 2019.
Statues of the Twelve Apostles, made in the style of the 13th century, surrounded the spire at its base. Each of the four sections of the roof had a row of three Apostles, standing one behind the other and staggered by height. In front of each group was another statue of a sign of the Tetramorph symbolizing the Four Evangelists: the bull for St. Luke, the lion for St. Mark, the eagle for St. John and the angel for St. Matthew. Each grouping faced one of the four cardinal directions. All of the statues look out over Paris except for St. Thomas, the patron saint of architects. He was looking towards the spire as if contemplating it.
We were lucky to have visited Paris before the fire and we were able to climb to the rooftop of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, although we had to wait in the line for a long time. The space at the top is limited but the surrounding 360 view of the city of Paris is simply amazing. The river Seine is also visible with cruise ships full of tourists. No wonder why this is one of the most famous and beautiful cathedrals in the world.
Reconstruction of the spire is taking place at the moment and the plans are to rebuild it just in time for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
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April 30th, 2021
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Cyril Jayant
Congratulations, Thank you and your art work has been selected as featured in our “CIEL MON PARIS- PARIS GLORIOUS “ group . Thank you for sharing it with the group in FAA and feel free for adding to Archive in the Discussion section in Feature link. (using the "embed" link on your image page).
Cyril Jayant
This is an image disappeared from the Paris cityscape forever Due to the great fire. You never see this again and it is a very touching image too to for those who love Paris. Great image I might say!!! I'd love to have this in our "Paris glorious group" please !! Cheers -Cyril
Alexios Ntounas replied:
Indeed it's really sad that this amazing spire was destroyed in the fire of 2019. Thank you very much for your comment Cyril. I have submitted the image to the "Paris Glorious" group!
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