• Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen

    May 26, 2024 in France ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    The Cathédrale primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen is a Catholic church in Rouen. It is famous for its three towers, each in a different style.

    When you walk straight from to the Église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc through the old town, you can't miss it.

    The cathedral, built and rebuilt over a period of more than eight hundred years, has features from Early Gothic to late Flamboyant and Renaissance architecture. It also has a place in art history as the subject of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, and in architecture history as from 1876 to 1880, it was the tallest building in the world.

    I look at cathedrals often, most of the time for me it's only about the architecture. This time it was different, there was some kind of holy spirit 👻 around...
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