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Strasbourg Cathedral (Cathédrale de Notre-Dame)
Stand in front of Hôtel de la Cathédrale and crane your neck up. If this church, with its
cloud-piercing spire and pink sandstone color, wows you today, imagine its impact on me-
dievaltourists.At466feet,thatspirewastheworld'stallestuntilthemid-1800s.Amatch-
ing second tower was planned but never built. The delicate Gothic style of the cathedral
(begun in 1176, not finished until 1429) is another Franco-German mixture that somehow
