A hotel of character, which has been totally renovated, in the heart of the Rive Gauche, ... more
with an ideal location between Saint-Germain des Prés, the cathedral Notre-Dame, opposite to the Sorbonne University and the Cluny museum. Magnificient restaurant ...
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Location. The Best Western La Tour Notre Dame is located in the Left Bank's Latin Quarter ... more
of Paris, France. Located less than three blocks from the hotel are some of the most famous landmarks of Paris. From the hotel, The Cluny Museum and La Sorbonne ...
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Location. The Best Western La Tour Notre Dame is located in the Left Bank's Latin Quarter ... more
of Paris, France. Located less than three blocks from the hotel are some of the most famous landmarks of Paris. From the hotel, The Cluny Museum and La Sorbonne ...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Charming Hotel totally renovated with an ideal location between Saint Germain des Pres ... more
the cathedral of Notre Dame opposite the Sorbonne university and the Cluny museum in the hearth of Old Paris and the Latin Quarter Our rooms lined with old Paris...
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Advantages: Grand example of church history and architecture Disadvantages: none
. The entire area was closed off to traffic, police were everywhere and we were so moved to join many thousands for this really special Catholic farewell to the Pope who had visited for a special service at the NotreDame 'Our Lady' in May 1980.
NotreDame de Paris, as it stands, was not the first church on this site but the church as it is now, has been a visually impressive part of the Paris scene, beside the Seine river, since the first foundation stone was laid in 1163 using plans designed by Maurice de Sully.
Construction took three stages until it was finished in 1250, with huge sponsorship from French kings during this time and from wealthy benefactors through the years.
Some vital statistics will give you an idea of how huge and impressive NotreDame is: 130m long, 48m wide and 35 m high; the Twin Towers are 69 metres high and you ...
Advantages: Classic French beauty, history and ambiance Disadvantages: None
is situated on the 'Ile de la Cité,' (the original birthplace of Paris), the area of Paris that divides the city's right and left banks. The Ile de la Cite is surrounded by the Seine River, the cathedral is arguably the most striking gothic cathedral in the world--and is undoubtedly the most famous. Started in the 12th century and completed in the 14th, NotreDame Cathedral was the very heartbeat of medieval Paris. Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cité. Cathedrale Notre de Paris means "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"--"our lady" in this case being the Virgin Mary. The cathedral is almost nine hundred years old and played a key role in Victor Hugo's 'Hunchback of Notre-Dame'. The bells are still rung several times daily, by human beings (but not by hunchbacks, as far as I know).
A VERY BRIEF HISTORY
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Advantages: A beautifully real story that will rend the heart Disadvantages: Some of the description can be a little long-winded
Better known as The Hunchback of NotreDame, NotreDame de Paris was written by Victor Hugo as a tribute to the Parisian cathedral and the beauty of its lost Renaissance city.
The main character is Quasimodo, the grotesque hunchback and cathedral bell ringer, adopted as a baby and brought up by the serious-minded, emotionless archdeacon Claude Frollo.
Both Quasimodo and Frollo find themselves driven into a passionate obsession for a young and beautiful gypsy girl - Esmerelda.
But Esmerelda - kind-hearted but a little shallow - only has eyes for the handsome, vainglorious Captain Phoebus.
The complex, interweaving love story is bound to end in tragedy.
The richness of Hugo's narrative left me spellbound. Each and every character - especially Pierre Gringoire - a flawed, poverty stricken writer also in love with Esmerelda and lost ...
