Paris France - Notre Dame  

Now we are going to walk down to check out Notre Dame. There it is left center. The historical nucleus of Paris is the Île de la Cité, a small boat-shaped island largely occupied by the huge Palais de Justice and the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. It is connected with the smaller Île Saint-Louis, occupied by elegant houses of the 17th and 18th cent. Characteristic of Paris are the tree-lined quays along the Seine (famed, on the left bank, for their open-air bookstalls), the historic bridges that span the Seine, and the vast tree-lined boulevards that replaced the city walls.

It is a beautiful cathedral. I like the carved figures that run around the building. I think they are saints and abbots, etc. The scaffolding on the left side of the building is for the process of cleaning the grime off the cathedral. We are lucky in that a lot of the building has already been cleaned and a major part of the scaffolding removed.

We are walking around the church to the back.

Here flying buttresses converge by the nave.

This isn't the greatest photography - the focus is on the folks in the foreground, not on Notre Dame. But I offer it just to give the feeling you have of seeing it at night.

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