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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
6 Place du Parvis-Notre-Dame.
Tel 01-42 34 56 10. Open
8am–6:45pm daily, to 7:15pm Sat
& Sun (Treasury: 9:30am–6pm
Mon–Fri, to 6:30pm Sat; from
1:30pm Sun; towers: daily.)
5 8am, 9am, noon, 6:15pm
Mon–Fri; 8am, 9am, noon,
. Flying Buttresses 6:30pm Sat; 8:30am, 10am,
Jean Ravy’s spectacular flying buttresses at the east 11:30am, 12:45pm, 6:30pm Sun.
end of the cathedral have a span of 15 m (50 ft). & for Treasury and towers. 8
Transport
q Cité. @ 21, 38, 47, 85, 96 to
Ile de la Cité.

. South Rose Window
The south facade window, with its
central depiction of Christ, is an
impressive 13 m (43 ft) in diameter.

Statue of Virgin and Child
Against the southeast pillar of the
crossing stands the 14th-century
statue of the Virgin and Child. It The Cathedral from the Left Bank
. Portal of the Virgin was brought to the cathedral from Notre-Dame’s spectacular island setting is
A statue of the Virgin surrounded the chapel of St. Aignan and is enhanced by the trees of Square Jean XXIII,
by kings decorates this massive known as Notre-Dame de Paris a formal garden laid out at the eastern end
13th-century portal. (Our Lady of Paris). of the Ile de la Cité.

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