Notre Dame Cathedral to reopen 5 years after massive fire
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2024
- Five years after a devastating fire left the spire and roof badly damaged, restorative repairs of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris are nearing completion. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.
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#notredame #fire #paris
This is actually the first good news I’ve read today.
I remember watching the live footage just floored that another well known monument was being lost. I’m so glad it was able to be refurbished and reconstructed with such care and love
From the images I've seen reconstruction is extremely well done and authentic. I hope to be able to visit the Norte Dame one day.
It's fantastic!!!!
@@fearmetoo-le8dwI have been inside. It's awe inspiring.
The billions of money spent in rebuilding this church for 100 people that go there, is better spent elsewhere.
Muslim extremists have burnt down 100s of churches across Europe but Arson was ruled out while Notre Dame was still on fire....
Handsome Hank and his skillful hands. Thank you to Hank and all of the craftsman who resurrected Notre Dame.
Hank and his colleagues will have to go to Copenhagen, and help the Danes rebuild the Børgen building and its dragon-tail spire.
All around, be still my heart.
Well done to that carpenter and all the other specialist people who helped to restore that badly damaged cathedral. This is what I call amazing team work and true craftsmanship...
Unfortunately, there is now another historic spire that needs to be rebuilt - and for the same terrible reason. Hopefully some of the people can now help Copenhagen.
I visited there by coincidence back in 2018. My friend were on an open top bus when it suddenly started to rain and lightly hail. Everyone crammed down to the bottom - standing room only - water was sloshing everywhere as we drove around Paris. Suddenly, the rain stopped so my friend and I got off at the next stop, which just so happened to be Notre Dame. Then, it started raining again! So, we started running to find cover in Notre Dame. We walked in and the entire place felt warm and aglow. There was a choir quietly singing and people sitting listening to them while others explored the cathedral.
This was a stunning report close to perfection on all counts - audio, videography, script and delivery by Kier. Really hit home seeing the work from this perspective using period tools and techniques - reminiscent of classical musicians playing period instruments while perfoming centuries old music. The parallel was palpable. Spot on great energy reporting.
It’s BEAUTIFUL once again. Thank you to all who made it happen. 🙏🏼💖✨
Waste of money
@@Theonetruegod-hw2eiNotre Dame is Magnificent. It’s good that they rebuilt it.
@@Libertystreet216 why?
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei So that people could see the beautiful architecture. All that history gone. People can see it again.
@@Libertystreet216 it’s a part of our history that should be in a book.
Fascinating. I’d love to see a separate piece on the crafting of the vintage tools used by the workers. And another one about the search for the thousands of oak trees needed for the restoration. I recall hearing initially that they didn’t believe there were enough mature oaks left in all of France to handle the needs of the restoration. This American craftsman (or any other craftsman for that matter) who was there for five years could author a very interesting story about what the work was like.
The literal fusion of man and machine, hand power and technology, coming together to save history.
Never would've thought that it's been 5 years 😮
It's been 5 years scene the fire in 2019.
Watching this beautiful old lady burn was physically painful, and I was sick with worry, waiting for the walls to cave in without the roof to hold them up. I am so, so happy that she survived and that she's almost ready to welcome visitors again.
Will be there in June, can’t wait!
The IMPOSSIBLE DREAM - It happened. Congratulations to ALL who took part in recreating this beauty.
Finally, a billion dollars spent on something worthwhile!
@@swann67000 …about a billion was raised…..happily.
Spent in euros. France doesn't use the dollar, US or other.
you're Muslim ?
@@francoisleyrat8659 First It wasn't just Euros raised it was donations from everywhere, Second the US dollar is just what everything is compared to, and thirdly dollars and Euros are very similar in value.
Love you, Hank!
Paris is the greatest city in the world.
Was, frankly most cities in the Western World are going to crap. Eastern Europe Might have the better cities now
Western Europe is in the new dark ages
I visited there on March 26, 2019 with my US and World history classmates in high school for spring break. I remember my teacher during passing time telling me about it 2 weeks after coming back to the USA. It’s gonna be crazy once we look back and realize this is just part of the long history it has
Christmas 2024 ❤
Will it still be free?
Unbelievable!
Thank the heavens a restoration, not a reimagining, was chosen.
How about thanking the people doing the work? Engineers. And skilled workers...like carpenters.
@@yvonneplant9434 Who gave the engineers and carpenters their skills?
@@ReiseLukasJesus? 😂
@@mattx449 God but yeah Jesus is a good answer too
@@ReiseLukas Sure buddy…
A silva carpenter from New England? I wonder if he's any relation to the family at the heart of This Old House?
Awesome.
Impossible n'est pas français ....
Pure Beauty!!!
as it should be...🙏❤🙏
Finally bring back the hunchback too
Glad to see this coming to completion. I remember just after the fire, there were proposals to "modernize" the cathedral -- I remember seeing one that had a modern glass roof and spire. Thank God they didn't go with that sort of monstrosity. Notre Dame is a medieval building. It should look like a medieval building. I'm glad saner heads prevailed.
Saner money helped (for once). Many donations impinged upon accurate restoration.
Not yet open to the public
Happy to hear Americans are helping the French with this!
Who says they don’t build them like they used to. This is amazing!
So, no Frollo?
Next job: Denmark stock exchange building.
Thank you people for your generous and dedicated work for this patrimony of humanity. You are the silent heroes of culture. Dios los bendiga siepre.
0:45 - You really needed to get that pronunciation correct......
The guys name is apparently "Hank Silver". What you said sounded like "Silva" and that name from New England implies a very distinct connection that isn't there.
3:24 bro on the right gets a lil itchy xD
2019 was 5 years ago 😭😭😭?
✨🙏✨🙏✨🙏
✝️
The single lesson that has not been learned, during work on an ancient building a nighttime fire watchman is a LOT cheaper than a rebuild. Hear that Copenhagen?
There was one as well as multiple smoke detectors that went off. But he wasn’t properly trained and cleared the first alarm as a false alarm.
Also it happened during the day.
the French authorities were lamentable in their anticipation. On the other hand, they were brilliant in the reconstruction.
(A firefighter remembered that there was a giant ladder at Versailles. He called from Notre Dame and the ladder arrived. It undoubtedly saved the cathedral.
What about cozzie motto ??? Did he survive ???
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It would be an honor to work on it as a mason, architect, sculptor etc. A true historic feat that should be memorialized.
Book a ticket for mass?
They gotta be lying - that fire happened last year, right?
April 2019
It doesn’t feel so long ago, does it?
Qausimodo will be happy
So suddenly people are actually concerned with Catholicism instead of ignoring it for the past decades?
It isn't about the religion, Notre Dame is a national monument in France like the Eiffel Tower. Letting it crumble is like letting France itself be erased from existence
Shame not the original though. Never be the same
It can't be the original if it burned..you know...wood burns...but rebuilt exactly as the original..
@@jean-yvesmartin6934 That's what I said 🤣🤣
Even the original wasn't the original. The spire came much later.
It will never be finished
Disney Donation 5 million dollars 💸
Perhaps, but that relatively paltry donation does not exsolve Disney from their many horrific misdeeds.
Keir Simmons sounds like he is on a drug high.
Il n'y a pas de religion sans économie, c'est sa fumée. ;)
Proof that many landmarks are fakes, mere replicas representing the past. It's like the ship of Theseus, at what point does the original structure no longer exist
It's a roof dude. Not that deep
Seems stupid to limit technology this way.
Not when we're talking about a piece of history
@@ReiseLukas History evolves.
@@jeffdittrich6778 history is a cycle. Some details may change but the basics never change and are repeated
they used modern cranes to lift it in place, that's not how they did it originally
The cranes are temporary, what is left behind is the only thing that truly needs to be as original as possible
If only the countless Black churches that were burned and bombed out for centuries got the same respect as Notre Dame.
What does France have to do with that? 🤔
@@Bklyn93 There are Black people and black culture all over the world, including France. If you don't know that, that's a problem.
@@vincentcerasoli5969 But “black churches” were not burned and bombed in France…
Sorry, just another old church. Who cares? The money could have been used to actually help people.
Waste of time and money. They could have dont a lot of good with that money
They did. Thanks to that, for instance, a new generation of specialized workers were trained, especially in some specific jobs that were almost extinct. Many students in engineer classes decided after their studies to learn either carpentry or stone tailoring thanks to what they saw visiting different working sites..
So just for that, it's not a waste of time or money
@@delphzouzou4520 ya and now they are out of work. Wait, they only used the old generations who knew what they were doing.
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei Why would they be out of work ?? Source ?
There is a lot of work in this trade, all along France and Europe, without speaking about all the experimental archaeology sites.
Of course they used the older generations (duh!) to teach the younger. That's how it works for thousands of years.
Spontaneous generations don't exist.
I don't know what you try to prove.
You seem to be a Nobel Price, are you ?
Well, you’re just a ray of sunshine and positivity. Smh
@@Theonetruegod-hw2eiI think you’d prefer a mosque on the site 😉
thanks to Trump rebuilding it
🏰🏙️🌉🗺️🎆
A complete disgrace. Instead of giving it to the poor who need it, they rebuilt an obsolete pile of bricks. Jesus would roll over in his grave if he hadn’t transcended this circus called life. 🤡
This was paid for with private donations. Let people spend their money as they wish.
You the crazy
Waste of money
$850 million donated money. Fort them, it's not a waste.