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Must See
1 One of Switzerland’s most
The tower was visited sights, the Cathédrale
completed Notre-Dame attracts over
in the 19th 400,000 visitors every year.
century.
2 The cathedral has multiple
decorative stained-glass
windows, such as this one.
3 An ornate crucifix, standing
in the cathedral’s central
nave. Notre-Dame is a
working cathedral with
regular services.

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Rose window

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INNOVATIVE ORGAN
The cathedral’s striking
organ was the first in
Carved decorative Europe to be built by an
details, including American, although it was
human figures, fill made to Italian Giorgetto
the vaulting. Giugiaro’s design, and the
The vestibule is first to feature four styles:
decorated with Romantic, Classical French,
late-Gothic murals Symphonic French and
This Bernese pulpit is dating from the Baroque. Most impressive
topped by a canopy early 16th century. is that it can be played
with intricate wooden remotely, by any other
tracery from 1666.
organist playing an organ
in another part of the world,
thanks to a cutting-edge
inter face system.

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