Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul

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This is - one of the greatest French cathedrals, it is only 6 m below the Notre Dame Cathedral, and the height of the nave under the arches even surpasses it. Building height - 63 m, the length of the nave -103 m, the height of the nave under the arches - 37.5 meters. It was built almost half a century. April 14, 1434, Bishop Jean de Malestroit laid the first stone of the cathedral. Like many Gothic churches, the cathedral of Nantes did not grow after the demolition of the Romanesque predecessor and gradually "absorbing" him during perestraivaniya.Glavny portal (photo) finished in 1481, the tower was completed in 1508, the Gothic nave vault - only in the XVII in, the apse -. to XIX. During the Revolution the cathedral suffered a "standard" lot: it was a shop, and then generally stable. All stained killed, looted the church utensils.