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Inside Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame’s interior grandeur is instantly apparent on seeing
the high-vaulted central nave. This is bisected by a huge transept, Spire
at either end of which are medieval rose windows, 13 m (43 ft) in
diameter. Works by major sculptors adorn the cathedral. Among
them are Jean Ravy’s old choir screen carvings, Nicolas Coustou’s
Pietà and Antoine Coysevox’s Louis XIV statue.

EXPERIENCE Paris: Île de la Cité, Marais and Beaubourg
Galerie des Chimères

South tower

Portal of
the Virgin

West rose
window

HIDDEN GEM Transept
“May” Paintings
These religious paintings
hang in the side chapels,
and include works by The Kings’ Gallery
Charles Le Brun. In the Illustration of
17th and 18th centuries, the Notre­Dame,
the Paris guilds pre­ a monument of
sented a painting to national importance
the cathedral on May
day each year.

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