Notre Dame de Reims, Champagne

the beautiful gothic Notre Dame of Reims City in the region of Champagne

centre of the city's attraction, it is celebrating its 800th anniversary in 2011

800!!!!!

O.O

I can't imagine anything standing this old and so astoundingly beautiful

the Notre Dame has undergone multiple restoration works...

else it won't be looking this solid and pretty rite?

JS just needed to snap this postcard picture of the Notre Dame with the lil board of a champagne bottle

hahahahahahahahaha

the symbols of Reims....the bottle and the cathedral

the lighter colored stones are the newer restoration works

somehow this cathedral has survived hundreds years of WARS and crusades

Notre Dame was declared a World UNESCO Heritage site only in 1991

I later found out that most Kings of France were crowned in this very Cathedral

all 45 Kings of France

 the main entrance was dedicated to Virgin Mary and child

it's so HUGE I had to tilt my head all the way to view it

its old wooden doors must have weighed tonnes!!!! I think :P

prollie needed a few men to open it

all visitors use a smaller side entrance to go inside

Yes u can go inside, no flash photography and pls remain silent

Really peaceful inside
it just invoke such sense of calmness and soothes you
esp with the grand organ playing


we lurve to visit cathedral on Sundays at mass
with the boys choir singing headed by the Bishop
it's soooo beautiful and emotional though we dun understand a word coz it's conducted in French
kekekekekekekeke

the Rose window along the transept of the cathedral
so intricate rite?
I mean to lay colored glasses in such manner where it tells the story of Christ

chandeliers hung low we can almost touch them
these days, they dun use candles anymore.....
Thanks to Thomas Edison we now have lightbulbs
so Let There be Lights.........

back tothe side of the cathedral it is standing high at 81m tall or approximately 267 feet
that's mighty high u know?
to get to the rooftop u need to write in to Palace of Tau to seek permission with a guided tour

Notre Dame Reims is so much more beautiful than the one in Paris

seriously....with its beautiful carvings, statues, facades

just out-shone Notre Dame in Paris which was much simplier and smaller in size

so CANTIK!!!!
I can just sit here all day and be mesmerised by it
though this was the 2nd visit, it is just ain't enuff!!!!!

modern architecture meets the gothic creation

the reflection of Notre Dame on this public library

such beautiful view from the library so who needs books anyway!!!!!!!

Tiny Monkey with the beautiful cathedral
a perfect autumn in Champagne


it has been a pilgrim to return here
so will we come back again next year?
:))))))))))
God alwiz has got arrangements for ya
but I like to believe that I hold my own destiny at my own hands
don't you?
:)))))))))))