Notre-Dame de Paris, the Gothic cathedral on the Ile de la Cite in the heart of Paris, was begun in 1163 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and completed in its main structure in the thirteenth century. It is known for its flying buttresses, its rose windows and its sculpted portals, and it was damaged during the French Revolution, then restored in the nineteenth century by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, partly inspired by Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. On 15 April 2019 a fire destroyed its roof and the spire, which had been added by Viollet-le-Duc, shocking the world. After a major restoration project, the cathedral was reopened in December 2024, which is the date shown here. Nearly all of the medieval stonework and its vaults survived.
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