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The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen is one of the great Gothic monuments of France, built and rebuilt across seven centuries from the twelfth century onward. Its asymmetrical west front pairs the austere Saint-Romain tower with the lace-like Flamboyant Butter Tower, and above the crossing rises a slender cast iron spire reaching one hundred and fifty one metres, which made Rouen the tallest building in the world from 1876 to 1880. Inside rest the tombs of Norman dukes and the heart of Richard the Lionheart. In the 1890s the ever changing light on this facade famously obsessed Claude Monet, who captured it in a celebrated series of paintings.
Fatti principali
- 151 metres — The height of the openwork cast iron spire, the tallest of any church in France
- 1876 year — When its iron spire was finished the cathedral became the tallest building in the world, a title it held until 1880
- 1145 year — The Gothic reconstruction of the cathedral began in this year under Archbishop Hugues of Amiens
📍 Place de la Cathédrale, 76000, Rouen