Keir Simmons is chief international correspondent for NBC News, based in Dubai.
PARIS — Five years after a fire ripped through its ornate wooden spire and roof, Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral offered the world a stunning tour of its painstaking reconstruction Friday with a visit by President Emmanuel Macron. Today her spire stands again, and the Gothic masterpiece readies to open her doors to the public, with Macron hosting a two hour televised tour revealing a transformedbuilding that practically synoymous with French culture and history.
On the night of the fire thousands of horrified Parisians and tourists looked on, many with tears in their eyes, as Notre Dame’s iconic spire — known in France as “la fléche,” or arrow — lurched and crashed into the inferno. Within minutes one of the most recognizable sights in the French capital was gone. While part of the cathedral, which was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991, was undamaged, nearly $1 billion in pledged donations were made within a day of the fire.
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