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Notre Dame Cathedral Paris
Famous Parisian building on the Ile de la Cité, River Seine, France
10 July 2020
Notre Dame Cathedral Restoration
Notre Dame Cathedral Paris spire will be restored to 19th Century design
The spire of Notre Dame cathedral – destroyed in a fire in April 2019 – is to be restored according to the original Gothic design.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision, putting an end to speculation that the spire would be rebuilt in a modern style.

Photographs © Adrian Welch
Emmanuel Macron had previously suggested he was in favour of a contemporary gesture.
However he has said he wants the restoration to be completed by 2024, when Paris is hosting the Olympics. The Elysée said the President’s main concern was “not delaying the reconstruction and making it complicated – things had to be cleared up quickly”.
Emmanuel Macron made the final decision Thursday after a meeting with the chief architect of the country?s historic monuments and the National Commission for Heritage and Architecture (CNPA) – Commission régionale du patrimoine et de l’architecture.
He trusted the expertise of the CNPA to guide the restoration choices for the spire, the wooden frame and the cathedral roof.

The spire was only added in the mid-1800s during a restoration of the 13th-century Gothic buiding carried out by French architec...