Notre-Dame reopening 2024

Heads of state and howling winds welcome Notre-Dame cathedral back to life

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President-Elect Donald Trump were in attendance as President Macron presided over the reopening of the famed Parisian monument

Through the Notre-Dame restoration, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc has now become ‘untouchable’. But at what price?

The five-year restoration of the cathedral has cemented the reign of the 19th-century architect, but his methods may not meet modern standards

Paris heralds the return of Notre-Dame’s bells

The northern belfry’s mighty bells—the oldest having survived the French Revolution—have been restored in Normandy and reinstalled in the bell chamber, from where they will once again ring out

The architecture graduate tasked with recording Notre-Dame’s renovation—in pencil and chalk

Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project's progress behind the scenes

Notre-Dame de Paris in seven works of art

Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading tourist attraction—it has also become a reliable muse for painters, photographers and more

‘Notre-Dame still retains some of its mystery’: the surprises revealed in the restoration

The painstaking work of archaeologists has uncovered two lost tombs and rare medieval masons’ marks

Green wood, axes and oaks: how ancient skills helped to raise Notre-Dame's new roof

A small army of carpenters combined traditional craftmanship with digital design tools to rebuild the medieval roof frame known as "the forest"

Lucky statues on Notre-Dame's spire to take up their position once more

Copper sculptures representing the Twelve Apostles and four New Testament Evangelists were removed for cleaning days before the fire

Out of the ashes: how Notre-Dame has been resurrected in a miraculously short time

Faith, politics and emotion have fused in the rebuilding of the Paris cathedral partially destroyed by a fire in 2019