After a thorough restoration, workers are returning the 150-year-old copper statues to the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Notre Dame Cathedral’s limestone walls look brand new, cleaned not only of dust from the devastating 2019 fire but also of grime that had accumulated for centuries.

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris,” known to many as “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” not only immortalized the cathedral’s story, but inspired a major restoration of the site.

Notre Dame Cathedral prepares to reopen 03:45. But on Friday, the gaping holes torn into the vaulted ceilings and the charred piles of debris were long gone, filled in with new stonework.

Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. Skip to content ...

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 good ...

The Brief. Notre Dame Cathedral displayed a new interior after a massive fire to the historical structure in 2019. The cathedral features new ceilings and stonework which was unveiled Friday.

PARIS (AP) — After more than five years of frenetic, but sometimes interrupted, reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral ...

After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday. The public is allowed back in on Dec. 8 ...

PARIS (AP) — After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new ...