<story><title>Notre Dame rises again</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/02/notre-dame-rises-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pen2l</author><text>I was fortunate enough to visit it the year before it caught on fire.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just a cathedral, I thought, just an attraction to check off from my &amp;#x27;list of things to see&amp;#x27; so I visited it on a whim really on a lazy Sunday afternoon while I was around the area. Oh man, there is something about it, the grandness, the structure. The rebuild appears to going for a very faithful reconstruction of what it was before.&lt;p&gt;Definitely go see it if you get the chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>regentbowerbird</author><text>And if you are in Paris and can&amp;#x27;t visit Notre-Dame because it is under renovation, maybe go see some other gothic cathedrals that are less than an hour away by train, such as Beauvais&amp;#x27; or Chartres&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;For what my opinion is worth, I was awestruck by Beauvais&amp;#x27; cathedral personally (even though, or especially because, I visited a fair number of period churches). Its nave is incredibly high, high enough that the aisles vaults by themselves are higher than some entire churches. It&amp;#x27;s also only halfway done, which is somewhat disappointing from an architectural perspective but fascinating from an archeological perspective: half the Carolingian cathedral is still there, which is a rarity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Notre Dame rises again</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/02/notre-dame-rises-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pen2l</author><text>I was fortunate enough to visit it the year before it caught on fire.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just a cathedral, I thought, just an attraction to check off from my &amp;#x27;list of things to see&amp;#x27; so I visited it on a whim really on a lazy Sunday afternoon while I was around the area. Oh man, there is something about it, the grandness, the structure. The rebuild appears to going for a very faithful reconstruction of what it was before.&lt;p&gt;Definitely go see it if you get the chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>The interior of the &amp;quot;Sainte-Chapelle&amp;quot;, which is nearby is even more breathtaking, IMHO. Both deserve a visit.</text></comment>