Parvis Notre-Dame

This is the vast open space in front of the cathedral. There used to be streets here; the outlines of the buildings are marked on the ground. Beneath is an underground car-park, and a museum showing Roman remains found when the car-park was being dug. From a brass plate in this square, the official centre of Paris, all road distances in France are measured.

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