Notre-Dame cathedral

Who visits Paris for the first time and is not interested in visiting the world famous Notre-Dame cathedral?

No one that I can think of...

And that urge has increased since it reopened in December 2024 after the 2019 fire.

That results in the existence of a big line before you can enter the building....

Free skip-the-line-time-slot tickets can officially potentially be found online 48 hours in advance

on Notre-Dame's official website...  But that only works with the help of God Himself and

if you make the right click when planets are well aligned… Here is the link if you want to give it a try:

https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/visit/reservation/

No professional travel agent (except if you are part of a big tour group) can guarantee a skip-the-line entrance to the cathedral because it simply (and sadly) doesn't exist... But that's not a problem really because the trick is to arrive before 10 AM (ideally 9:30 AM) and there is no more than a 10 minute line which is the normal amount of time to go through the security. And that time can be usefully used

to describe some elements of the façade (which is otherwise difficult to get close to).

In order to learn a lot more about this cathedral and its restorations,

I highly recommend that you click on my gothic link.

And if you want to know more about Viollet-le-Duc, the chief architect

who supervized the restorations in the 19th Century, please clich here!