Notre Dame Cathedral and Sainte-Chapelle

Notre-Dame took 170 years to build! Pope Alexander III laid the first stone in 1163. It's so amazing that these buildings are all so old and still standing. This is the front of the cathedral.

Christ.
This is called the South Rose Window, Christ is at the center, but you can't really tell. It's 43 feet high.
This is the center of the Cathedral. We tried to go to Mass, but we got there at the wrong time and didn't really want to wait 3 hours.
This is in back of the Notre-Dame. This is where the Flying Buttresses are (but they're not in the picture)
Then this is Sainte-Chapelle. It's just about a block from the Notre-Dame.
This is the lower chapel, only servants and commoners were allowed to worship here. The upper chapel was reserved for the king and the royal family only.
This is the upper chapel. It has amazing stained glass windows all around. The windows are a pictorial Bible. You're supposed to see the stories starting with Genesis, I couldn't figure it out though.
This Stefanie below the Rose Window in the upper chapel, it tells the story of the Apocalypse (again I couldn't see the story). The window was a gift from Charles VIII n 1485.