Fire at Nantes Cathedral

Treated as a criminal act


https://news.sky.com/story/nantes-cathedral-on-fire-flames-lick-15th-century-facade-12031069

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Saw over on Twitter someone said it might have been an abuse victim who set the fire off but it was just a random poster who said it not don't know if its true or not.

ah the internets says lots of things

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

I do the same myself, not religious at all but the beauty in Catholic/Orthodox churches is undeniable.
One of the most stunning I saw was in Bratislava. Dark oak and an incredible amount of Goldleaf. Bologna Italy as well, mean square near the two towers. Beautiful.
Christianity has given us some horrific practices but also the direct opposite some stunning and jaw dropping beauty.

yeah likewise here, not religious at all but always seek out cathedrals when abroad. Gaudis Sagrada Familia and the Duomo in Milan being two particular highlights, both are stunning buildings. St.Pauls cathedral in London is another great one. Heard theres a good one in Salisbury too with a very tall spire

Muahahaha wrote: »

yeah likewise here, not religious at all but always seek out cathedrals when abroad. Gaudis Sagrada Familia and the Duomo in Milan being two particular highlights, both are stunning buildings. St.Pauls cathedral in London is another great one. Heard theres a good one in Salisbury too with a very tall spire

123 metres high. A fact known to every Russian schoolchild

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

I've twice been in Barca twice mad that I never got to the GSF. Will do someday. Only took four trips to Rome to see the Pantheon.

Yeah the Sagrada Familia is an epic building as is much of Gaudis architecture all over Barcelona. When I was last there they were saying that construction on it is due to be complete in 2025. Which Im guessing makes it the longest ever construction project- they first started it in 1882 :eek:



If you're back would highly recommend a tour of Gaudis house on Las Ramblas. Walking around it is like being in some sort of fairytale, he had to have been on acid. His mushroom shaped fireplace and seating area is bizarre but at the same time genius

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Thanks a million for the recommendation, if you ever get to Prague checkout the dancing house.

ah yeah thats by Frank Gehry who is literally my favourite living architect. He has apartment buildings in Dusseldorf in a similar style that look like they are going to fall over. Went to see them a few years back when we went to Germany for a Borrusia Dortmund game just up the road from Dusseldorf. Theyre a real mind bend, he plays tricks on your eyes by the way he places windows at various protruding angles.






My favourite by Gehry though is his Las Vegas Hospital for Brain Health. Its just so ridiculously off the wall. They do tours of it if you contact the hospital in advance, its been on my bucket list for a few years now.



This is the inside

And ouside, ironic that its a brain clinic

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

I'd say as Muh has suggested about another architect, they probably scratched their heads and said "what the fuq is he on".
Incredible structures though, says as much about the talents of the builders that they could translate a drawing into such a building. Mind bending.

yeah Gehrys work is so just far out there, he did the Guggenheim muesum in Bilbao as well. Was reading that Bilbao was a sleepy backwater in terms of tourism till that building went up and then the when it was finished it featured on the front pages of magazines and newspapers worldwide. That building literally put Bilbao on the map and suddenly thousands of tourists were flocking there to see it. The local council reckon its paid for itself a few times over with the increased tourism and awareness of the city. Its now automatic that when you think of Bilbao you think of the Guggenheim muesum.

I've always wished that Dublin city council would do something similar and get a world class architect in to create a statement building for the city. Something that people would actually get on a plane to come here and see. Sadly the standards of architecture DCC permit are pretty low so it wont be happening anytime soon.

I wonder what could be causing French churches to spontaneously combust? Strange things seem to be happening all across France but its not a coincidence that Churches in France are attacked, damaged and set on fire all the time. The churches and cathedrals in predominantly Christian countries like Ireland and Poland aren’t burning for some reason. What could be causing these fires in France ? There must be something an electrician did wrong maybe because these fires and attacks on Christian churches does not seem to affect mosques , synagogues or other places of worship but its specific disastrous for Christian churches. After the destruction of Saint-Sulpice and Notre-Dame, will Macron's government dare to present the Nantes Cathedral's fire as "just another accident"? I wouldn't put it past the bellend. I also wonder how long the media in France and globally, will continue to ignore these attacks as they do with the discrimination, intolerance and violence against Christians in Cyprus, Egypt, and Nigeria etc.


26 Churches have been attacked/burned in 2019 alone in France nevermind over the past decade . This is no coincidence. Sh*te smeared on the walls in Notre-Dame-des-Enfants church in Nîmes. Stained glass windows smashed and the organ at Saint-Denis Basilica just outside Paris was vandalized and a fire in Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. There is a pattern.


See pictures of thw Nantes cathedral damage here

excludedbin wrote: »

Oh God, here come the conspiracy theories already... Do we really have to suffer through another round of entertaining the idea that there's some grand conspiracy to suppress the truth of the Notre-Dame fire? Well considering certain people get very angry when you point out that the authorities are more worth believing than some conspiracy theorist, I'm sure we will.

That's the worst thing about conspiracy theories - by their nature, the true believers will never accept evidence to the contrary. They'll claim it's been manufactured by the conspirators and you're either one of them or a witless dupe in their scehemes.


Yep, that sounds like an unbiased source to me! Though I'm sure it plays quite nicely into the usual conspiracy theorists' ideas. Just not the ones who seem intent on twisting this into a stick to beat the devious forrins with. Not to worry, they'll find some way to blame them, light on facts and evidence as they always are.

"No no no don't look at that, look over here at me"