Notre Dame de Paris｜Come to France to learn about historical buildings📖

#AprilGoodDestinations2025 Notre-Dame de Paris is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris. It was built between 1163 and 1250. It is a Gothic building and a representative one among the Gothic churches in the Île-de-France region. After years of fire restoration, Notre-Dame de Paris finally reopened. I rushed to visit this great building that has been famous for thousands of years as soon as it opened. In terms of architectural structure, it pioneered the use of pointed rib arches and flying buttresses to support the thin and tall church walls, transferring the weight of the vault to the church's exterior walls and offsetting the lateral thrust from the nave vault, thus revolutionizing Gothic architecture across the ages. The church was originally designed to have four floors, but unlike the Rouen Cathedral, the dark gallery was replaced by small round windows of stained glass. Huge and colorful rose windows are distributed on the facade of the church, which greatly improves the performance of the church in terms of lighting and aesthetics. The rich sculptures in Notre Dame are also world-famous. Notre Dame is the most representative historical monument, tourist attraction and religious site in Paris. The most representative of them is the "Virgin of Paris". The Virgin's body is exaggeratedly S-shaped, which is similar to classical sculptures, but the S here cannot be compared with classical art because it is a decorative method used for elegant effects. It is relatively empty, but it is still one of the great advances in Gothic art.