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Crossing the bridge to the Île de la Cité. A tower of Notre Dame Cathedral, right.
The Île de la Citéis one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris. It is the center of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded.
The Palais de Justice (dome) and Conciergerie (Far right) on the Île de la Cité
The Palais de Justice ('"Palace of Justice"), formerly the Palais de la Cité ("Palace of the City"), is located on the Boulevard du Palais in the Île de la Cité in central Paris, France. Among the oldest surviving buildings of the former royal palace are the Palais and the Conciergerie, a former prison, now a museum, where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned before being executed on the guillotine. The justice of the state has been dispensed at this site since medieval times. From the sixteenth century to the French Revolution this was the seat of the Parlement de Paris.
The Palais de Justice
The building was reconstructed between 1857 and 1868 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honoré Daumet.
The Conciergerie
Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at a number of locations around Paris.
Le Quasimodo Cafe. Quasimodo was the fictional Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo is a fictional character and the protagonist in the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death. The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939), as well as Tom Hulce in the 1996 Disney animated adaptation. In 2010, a British researcher found evidence suggesting there was a real-life hunchbacked stone carver who worked at Notre Dame during the same period Victor Hugo was writing the novel and they may have even known each other.
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Prefecture of Police Building directly across the Square from Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Paris
The prefecture is a large building located in the Place Louis Lépine on the Île de la Cité. This building was built as a barracks for the Garde républicaine from 1863 to 1867 and was occupied by the Prefecture in 1871.The Paris Police Prefecture is the unit of the French National Police which provides the police force for the city of Paris and the surrounding three suburban départements of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Val-de-Marne. It is headed by the Prefect of Police.
Notre Dame, the nave
Notre-Dame de Paris also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and it is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.
Clerestory, Notre Dame
The Clerestry is the upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building.
High Altar, Notre Dame
High Altar and Ambulatory, Notre Dame
The ambulatory is the covered passage around a cloister or the processional way around the east end of a cathedral or large church and behind the high altar.
Stained Glass, Notre Dame
Nave looking to the Rose Window, Notre Dame
Interior panorama-intersection of Nave and Trancept, Notre Dame
Chapel, Notre Dame
Saint Joan of Arc, Notre Dame
Joan of Arc (6 January c. 1412 – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint
Saint Joan of Arc
Rose Window, Notre Dame
Rose Window, Notre Dame
Biblical scene reliefs, Notre Dame
Detail-Biblical scene reliefs, Notre Dame
Notre Dame Cathedral
Exterior Sculptural Reliefs, Notre Dame Cathedral
Tympanum of the Last Judgment, Facade of Notre Dame Cathedral
Facade of Notre Dame Cathedral
One of Notre-Dame's well known chimera gargoyles
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to minimize the potential damage from a rainstorm.
Gargoyles, Notre Dame Cathedral
Notre Dame Cathedral
Notre Dame Gargoyle
East Transept, Notre Dame Cathedral
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Georgia consults Rick Steves near Notre Dame
Square Jean XXIII
This park was the first public garden in Paris. It has cherry trees from Japan, Turkish hazel, silver limes, weeping elms, flowerbeds, yew trees, chestnut trees, a Hungarian oak and a Persian silk tree
Flying Buttresses, Notre Dame Cathedral
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress. The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave but after construction began, the thinner walls grew ever higher and stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. In response, the cathedral's architects built supports around the outside walls, and later additions continued the pattern. A flying buttress is a specific form of buttressing most strongly associated with Gothic church architecture. The purpose of any buttress is to resist the lateral forces pushing a wall outwards (which may arise from stone vaulted ceilings or from wind-loading on roofs) by redirecting them to the ground. The defining characteristic of a flying buttress is that the buttress is not in contact with the wall like a traditional buttress; lateral forces are transmitted across an intervening space between the wall and the buttress.
Notre Dame
Notre Dame in B&W
Lovely residences on the Left Bank across from Notre Dame
Notre Dame de Paris
Pope Saint John-Paul II
Pont au Double, connecting Île de la Cité and the Left Bank near Notre Dame
In 1515, Francis I was asked to build a bridge over the small branch of the Seine in order to carry patients to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital on the Île de la Cité. Construction began in 1626 and in 1634 the two sides were connected. The Pont au Double derives its name from the toll amount which was charged, a "double" denier, money used to pay for the construction of the bridge. In 1709, the bridge collapsed. It was rebuilt and remained in place until 1847. In 1883, the Pont au Double was replaced by a one arch cast-iron bridge.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne- (2 April 742 – 28 January 814), also known as Charles the Great , was King of the Franks. He united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He took the Frankish throne in 768 and became King of Italy from 774. From 800 he became the first Holy Roman Emperor — the first recognized emperor in Western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. While Charlemagne already ruled his kingdom without the help of the Pope, recognition from the pontiff granted him divine legitimacy in the eyes of his contemporaries
Stealing a kiss near Notre Dame
Pont au Change
The Pont au Change is a bridge over the Seine River in Paris. The bridge is located at the border between the first and fourth arrondissements. It connects the Île de la Cité from the Palais de Justice and the Conciergerie, to the Right Bank, at the Place du Châtelet.
Sainte-Chapelle and the great gate of Palais de Justice
The Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) is a royal medieval Gothic chapel, located near the Palais de la Cité, on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris.Begun some time after 1239 and consecrated on 26 April 1248, the Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture. It was commissioned by King Louis IX of France to house his collection of Passion relics, including Christ's Crown of Thorns—one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom.Along with the Conciergerie, the Sainte-Chapelle is one of the earliest surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité. Although damaged during the French Revolution, and restored in the 19th century, it has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained glass collection anywhere in the world.
Sainte-Chapelle (L) and Palais de Justice (R)
Sainte-Chapelle, lower level
Sainte-Chapelle, the lower chapel. Statue of King St. Louis IX
Sainte-Chapelle, lower chapel
Sainte-Chapelle
The Sainte-Chapelle or 'Holy Chapel', in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la Cité , was built to house Louis IX's collection of relics of Christ, which included the Crown of Thorns, the Image of Edessa and some thirty other items. Louis purchased his Passion relics from Baldwin II, the Latin emperor at Constantinople, for the sum of 135,000 livres, though this money was actually paid to the Venetians, to whom the relics had been pawned. The relics arrived in Paris in August 1239, carried from Venice by two Dominican friars. For the final stage of their journey they were carried by the King himself, barefoot and dressed as a penitent, a scene depicted in the Relics of the Passion window on the south side of the chapel. The relics were stored in a large and elaborate silver chest, the Grand-Chasse, on which Louis spent a further 100,000 livres.
Sainte-Chapelle
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