Notre Dame in Paris is one of the city's most visited monuments, second (or equal) only to the Eiffel tower. The comprehensive tour takes you back on a journey of more than 850 years of history. You will go deep into what Paris was like then, how the church came to be and what it stood for. To properly understand its importance and purpose, a picture will be painted of medieval life, thoughts, ideas and conceptions of the world. Like most Gothic cathedrals, Notre Dame is not only a building representative of the era of its conception, but it's also a checkpoint of every successive era. These churches took a long time to build; even when the initial work was finished, they were constantly maintained, with new layers of history added as time went by. This cathedral is a testament to French and Parisian culture. You will learn more about Europe, France and Paris on this tour than in any other site, museum or monument in the city.