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Begun in 1434, the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul took more than four centuries to finish, with its final touches added only at the end of the nineteenth century. Built from soft, luminous white tuffeau limestone, it feels startlingly bright inside, and its nave vaults rise to around thirty seven and a half metres, even higher than those of Notre-Dame in Paris. Its greatest treasure is the tomb of François the Second, the last independent Duke of Brittany, and his wife Marguerite de Foix, a dazzling early Renaissance masterpiece carved by Michel Colombe at the request of their daughter Anne of Brittany. The cathedral has twice suffered terrible fires, in 1972 and again in July 2020, when an arson attack destroyed the great organ, yet it remains one of the most moving monuments in the city.
Wissenswertes
- 1434 year — The first stones were laid, beginning more than four centuries of construction
- 2020 year — A devastating fire, later found to be arson, destroyed the great organ
- 37.5 metres — The height of the nave vaults, taller than those of Notre-Dame in Paris
📍 Impasse de la Psalette, 44000, Nantes