Notre Dame Cathedral, Rouen

This cathedral is considered a landmark of art history. Visitors are seeing
essentially what Claude Monet saw as he painted 30 different studies of the frilly
Gothic facade at various times of day. There's been a church on the cathedral's
site for more than a thousand years. The building present today was constructed
between the 12th and 14th centuries, though lightening strikes, wars (the
cathedral was devastated in WWII fighting), and other destructive forces meant
constant rebuilding.Read more