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DANIEL VALLA FRPS/ALAMY
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Cathédrale Notre Dame, Reims
Imagine the extravagance, the over-the-top costumes and the egos writ large of a French
royal coronation. The structure, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1991, celebrates its
800th anniversary in 2011.
The finest stained-glass windows are the western facade's 12-petalled
great rose win-
dow
; its cobalt-blue neighbour below; and the
rose window
in the north transept (to the
left as you walk from the entrance to the high altar), above the Flamboyant Gothic
organ
case
(15th and 18th centuries) topped with a figure of Christ.
Feeling as strong as Goliath (look for his worn figure up on the west facade, held in
place with metal straps)? Then consider climbing 250 steps up the
cathedral tower
on a
one-hour tour. Book at the Palais du Tau.
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