The Strasbourg Cathedral (officially named Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg)
is a sight to behold.
The French poet and playwright Paul Claudel called the Gothic church a
"pinky-red angel hovering over the city."
The site on which Strasbourg Cathedral stands
was originally occupied by a Roman temple,
and then a Romanesque church that was built in 1015 and later destroyed by fire.

The present cathedral was completed in 1284,
but the spire was not standing until 1439.
Unique in having no twin, the spire of Strasbourg cathedral
was the tallest in Christendom for four centuries.