Notre Dame... very sad

[VladTepes]

I've been there and it is (was ?) stunningly beautiful.

[Tony Nitrous]

Yeah, been a couple of times, went there for my honeymoon, and went there with my wife and step daughter and rented an apartment.

Interesting place. Love the Eiffel Tower, Mon Martre, Arc de Triomphe, The Louvre, Notre Dam etc etc, but the Catacombs is my favourite, it freaks the Mrs out.

Bugger about Notre Dam though...

[Tony Nitrous]

Have you been down in the Catacombs Vlad ?

[KiwiCol]

I might not be as 'cultured' as some people, but to me, what's in those pics I find totally abhorrent.

Not you Tony, what's in those pics.

[Tony Nitrous]

When they "re-did" Paris they quarried huge amounts of stone from under it, the reason much of Paris has a similar style and look. As Paris expanded they got to the cemetery's / graveyards around the outside. Someone had the bright idea of digging up millions ( 6 million?) of the dead and putting them back in the now huge quarry's below.   Many years later it's a tourist attraction.

http://catacombes.paris.fr/en

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris

[Mrg]

It is sad to see history go like that but they will have enough money to re build and the very brave fireman crews that saved the whole complex  were out standing as well as the people that saved the works of art

[Tony Nitrous]

It is sad to see history go like that but they will have enough money to re build and the very brave fireman crews that saved the whole complex  were out standing as well as the people that saved the works of art

"At the website GoFundMe, more than 50 campaigns related to the cathedral fire had been launched globally on Monday, John Coventry, a spokesman for Go Fund Me, said.

Meanwhile, the family investment firm of French luxury goods magnate Francois-Henri Pinault will contribute 100 million euros ($A158 million) towards the rebuilding of the cathedral, news agency AFP has reported"

[Mick_J]

It took 200 hundred years to build, I cant see them sorting that lot out in 5 years.

[KiwiCol]

Chinese would have it done in 12 months 

[Tony Nitrous]

It took 200 hundred years to build, I cant see them sorting that lot out in 5 years.

I'd be quite surprised if it wasn't closer to 10.

It's never going to be a rush job to fix.

[Kiwifruit]

In NZ it would take 5 years to get Resource Consent before you could even touch whats left.

Col the Chinese would get a bulldozer there clear the site and 3D Print a new one.......by Xmas 

[VladTepes]

Just look at the pace of the Sagrada Familia building works in Barcelona. It's impressive but even so things take time.
5 years? Nah.

[GSXKING]

Seriously  just raze it and start again, we won't have another 200 years to waste repairing it. You know with the onset of climate change and all 

[VladTepes]

I dunno, maybe the lead roof would have come in handy with the increased radiation everywhere...

[Proteous]

Its is a sad thing BUT and its a flipping huge but... I think its disgusting how so many companies have offered money and such to help the rebuild.. Whats fecking disgusting is none of these companies have ever offered any money towards things THAT ACTUALLY matter like deforestation, or the plastics crisis in our oceans or global warming research.. 100 million towards solving some of the more important global issues would be money better spent. Not some old building that 90% of the world couldnt give a shit about.