Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Strasbourg
Gothic cathedral with a single soaring spire, guarded for eight centuries by its own stonemasons' lodge.
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This guide to Strasbourg's Cathédrale Notre-Dame begins at the great west front, with three men of one family and a rose window the first of them never saw finished. It follows Erwin von Steinbach and his descendants, then the cathedral's own building workshop, and a day in 1459 when masons from across the German lands handed one of its masters an extraordinary authority. Best heard standing in the square before the west façade, where you can look up at the rose window.
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