The footage of Notre-Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames, on April 15, 2019, felt almost like it was captured in another reality. Watching countless social media feeds and newscasts document the iconic 800-year-old structure teeter on the edge of complete destruction seemed unreal and impossible; a made-for-Hollywood disaster, the likes of which the world hadn’t seen since 9/11.
A year later, as the planet’s population shelters in place to curb the spread of COVID-19, the Notre-Dame conflagration seems a lifetime ago. As many of us adjust to a smaller existence within the confines of our homes, Building Notre Dame, which premieres on PBS April 28 at 8 p.m., affords the opportunity to not only virtually visit the world’s most famous Gothic structure, but go back in time to its creation in the Middle Ages.
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