This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. Fire nearly destroyed the Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. Thanks largely to an outpouring of private ...

Something beautiful happened late last year. As 2024 wound down, the world celebrated the rebuilding of glorious Notre Dame de Paris, which a mere five and a half years before was engulfed in ...

Almost six years ago, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, one of the world’s most recognized structures, was damaged by fire. Five years later, the iconic structure was rebuilt with precision—guided by ...

On Saturday, one of Paris’ most beloved architectural marvels will reopen to the public for the first time in five years. Back in 2019, flames engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral’s medieval roof, stained ...

After more than five years of frenetic, but sometimes interrupted, reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed itself anew to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy ...

When Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral reopens to the public on Sunday, the world’s most-visited church will have been restored to almost exactly its form before a devastating 2019 fire. But it won’t look ...

When Tomas van Houtryve walked into Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral four years ago, he was wearing a hazmat suit and looking through a massive hole in its ceiling. At first you notice “all its grandeur ...