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Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral is slowly regaining its iconic visage, after nearly five years of reconstruction work following a massive fire that heavily damaged its roof and lead its spire to crumble.

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<div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paris&#x27; Notre-Dame cathedral is slowly regaining its iconic visage, after nearly five years of reconstruction work following a massive fire that heavily damaged its roof and lead its spire to crumble.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On April 15, 2019, a major fire broke out in Notre-Dame. The flames ravaged the monument&#x27;s roof structure and then spread, destroying the spire, the nave and transept roofs and their wooden frameworks.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The scaffolding that has surrounded much of the cathedral&#x27;s facade has started to be removed little by little, and a new spire is already visible, as Paris is set to mark the fifth anniversary of the blaze on Monday. </span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Not part of the original design of the cathedral - which was built over nearly 200 years starting in the middle of the 12th century - the 96 meter-high spire, was added during a 19th century restoration by architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some 500 workers are present on the site every day, racing to rebuild the cathedral, Europe&#x27;s most visited monument before the fire, which has dominated the Ile de la Cite island on the River Seine since the Middle Ages.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">French President Emmanuel Macron has said the restoration work is on schedule, with the cathedral slated to reopen to the public on December 8, 2024.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>(Production: Lucien Libert, Clotaire Achi, Manuel Ausloos, Ardee Napolitano)</strong></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral is slowly regaining its iconic visage, after nearly five years of reconstruction work following a massive fire that heavily damaged its roof and lead its spire to crumble.</p>

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Notre-Dame rises from ashes, five years after blaze

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Published Apr 13, 2024 01:00 PM PHT

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