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Al Jazeera
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Shola Lawal

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens five years after devastating blaze

This photograph shows video mapping on the facade of Notre-Dame de Paris a few days before its reopening after reconstruction following a fire on April 4, 2019 [Ludovic Marin/AFP]

Notre-Dame Cathedral, situated on an island in the River Seine in Paris, France, is reopening this weekend after more than five years of intense reconstruction work to restore the medieval building to its former glory.

After a fire gutted the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019, the 12th-century Gothic masterpiece has now been masterfully restored and will reopen to the public on Sunday following a ceremony on Saturday, which will be attended by a lineup of heads of state and top-level delegates from around the world.

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