Thursday, October 21, 2010

Mardi 19 October

I saw the inside of the Notre Dame and Sainte Chapel and saw many bridges

 We found many bridges that all crossed The River Seine. There are 21 bridges that cross the river in the city. Many are hundreds of years old and made entirely out of cut stone. 


They have pedestrian only bridges that teeter precariously over the water and bridges for cars and people. All of the bridges are very beautiful and amazing. The keystone in one of the bridges is very faint but you can still see it-- can you find the keystone?


Then there was the Notre Dame cathedral that was started almost one thousand years ago and it took 200 years or more build. The buttresses that come off of the Notre Dame are keeping the huge building upright because with its stone only construction it can’t stand upright on its own.

There was a steel pedestrian bridge that had been made way earlier than the other steel bridges and the underside had tiny arches that support the big one. 


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