Renovation, Restoration and Rebirth: A Notre-Dame Audio Tour
Description
Notre-Dame de Paris has watched over generations of changing artistic tastes, political upheaval, and religious practices. On this self-guided audio tour, you’ll find out how the UNESCO World Heritage site has evolved through nearly nine centuries of construction, destruction, and rebirth. Your guide on this audio tour is Lindsey Hansen, a Context Travel expert and art historian specializing in medieval French Gothic architecture. The tour takes you through Notre-Dame's most significant spaces, including the central nave and the ambulatory chapels with their funerary monuments for France’s elite. During the tour, you’ll learn to spot the difference between original medieval elements, later additions, and recent restorations. You’ll be taught to ”read” the cathedral’s complex history through its architecture. This tour offers a rare opportunity to trace Notre-Dame’s 900-year evolution, from its medieval origins to its post-fire restoration.
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This self-guided audio tour of Notre Dame starts outside the cathedral on Place Jean Paul II. The tour starts in the square in front of the cathedral and takes you through its most significant spaces, including the central nave and the ambulatory chapels with their funerary monuments for France’s elite.
On this self-guided tour, you’ll find out how the restored UNESCO World Heritage site has evolved through nearly nine centuries of construction, destruction, and rebirth – including its remarkable recovery from the devastating 2019 fire.
On this tour, you’ll learn to spot the difference between original medieval elements, later additions, and recent restorations.
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- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
