It is often forgotten, but the Sacré-Coeur was commissioned as atonement for the 58,000 dead of the 1870-1 Franco-Prussian war. Even todat, priests work in relays to keep the prayers going 24 hours a day. This extraordinary neo-Romanesque-Byzantine edifice has a stog tourist pull, mainly for its hilltp site overlooking Paris. Climb the dome at […]

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