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Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens five years after devastating blaze

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens five years after devastating blaze

Al Jazeera
Saturday, December 7, 2024 9:33 AM GMT

Reconstruction work after the fire in Paris in 2019 required about 2,000 workers.

Notre-Dame Cathedral, situated on an island in the River Seine in Paris, France, is reopening this weekend after more than five years of intense reconstruction work to restore the medieval building to its former glory.

After a fire gutted the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019, the 12th-century Gothic masterpiece has now been masterfully restored and will reopen to the public on Sunday following a ceremony on Saturday, which will be attended by a lineup of heads of state and top-level delegates from around the world.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who promised to restore the cathedral within five years after the catastrophe, made a preopening visit to the site on November 29 with his wife, first lady Brigitte Macron. The president thanked the thousands of workers who had reconstructed the building.

“The inferno of Notre-Dame was a wound for the nation, … and you were its remedy,” the president said.

Here is what we know about this weekend’s reopening and what happened to the nearly 900-year-old cultural icon five years ago:

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