Notre Dame

Gabriela Mayram Pérez Aguilar.
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I chose Notre Dame because I think it's a beautiful architecture that has a lot of things to tell about the history of the country where it is. (France)

The first thing that comes to me when I see this picture is the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and is that even looks a bit funny that connects with it, who does not like movies that end with an impossible love?.
But what many people do not stop to think, is that in those days, the church wanted people to respect him and that he had achieved through fear, that was one of many reasons why churches are a living representation of Gothic art, because apart from that many had in their basement the "torture chambers" as they were called, who disobey the mandates of the church if even in architecture was a little scared?.

Notre Dame is one of the most representative architectures of France and of Gothic art.
And is that from the base to the tip of the towers can be seen finishes of this type of art.



You can see the arches that instead of being very oval as they were before, in this type of architecture are very sharp.



The thing that caught my attention this kind of art, are the gargoyles.
French has an oral tradition there is a dragon named La gargouilles, who lived in a cave near the river Seine.
The gargouilles characterized by their bad manners swallowed ships, destroying everything that stood in his way, and spit too much water, so it caused all kinds of flooding.

The residents of nearby Rouen tried to placate his fits of temper with an annual human sacrifice consisting of a criminal who paid their faults as well, although the dragon preferred maidens.

In the year 600 the Christian priest came to Rouen Romanus willing to compromise with the dragon if the citizens of this town agreed to be baptized and built a church dedicated to Catholic worship.

Equipped with the annual convicted and attributes necessary for an exorcism, Romanus dominated the dragon with the single sign of the cross, transforming it into a docile beast who consented to be transferred to the city, tied with a simple string.

The gargouilles was burned at the stake, with the exception of its mouth and neck, used to the hot breath of the beast, resisted burning in view of which it was decided to mount them on the council, as a reminder of the bad times who had posed to residents.

But although many people believe that gargoyles are something like guards or something scary, really, as the name that is synonymous of "spit out water with ease," says, although the gargoyles decorative and symbolic functions fulfilled its main task is to divert rain water to prevent erosion in buildings.