Its best known facade is the west face, in which it stands out for three major portals: the main called the Final Judgmentwith sculptures that represent the resurrection of the dead and demons that the sinful souls take, and two side portals dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Santa Ana. In addition, the image is completed with a large circular stained glass window 10 meters in diameterand the Two Towers of the bell tower, 69 meters high Coronated by the classic gargoyles, from which the legend is clear that the night they burned on the stake to Juana de Arco, these winged monsters woke up and razed the city; The next morning, it is said, hundreds of corpses appeared in the streets of Paris and the gargoyles in place from the heights.
Towards the sides of this building, one of the constructive innovations of his time, and so characteristic in Notre DameThey are the Arbotantsas a structural solution due to the pressures of the vaults towards the outdated buttresses from abroad.
As in the interior, Luminosity and windows stand outthe cylindrical pillars that separate the spaces from the shipsand the Simplicity in the sculptural decoration of capital and enjutasin which plant elements predominate.
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The elevation has, like Gothic temples of the timethree characteristic floors: the first formed by forming arches pointed out on the columns, the second with a tribune communicated with the central nave by three openings, and the third in which the windows consisting of double vain pointed and another circular superior is located.
Following inside, in its header the sculpture of La Piedad, sculpted by Nicolas Custou in the 18th centuryflanked by Efiges de los Reyes Louis XIII and Louis XIV. The main organ of the cathedral is an instrument of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll mostly.