Experts' Choice Award Cathedrale Notre-Dame des Doms
What the experts agree on
This striking 12th-century Romanesque cathedral predates the adjacent papal palace and crowns its bell tower with a gleaming gilded Virgin Mary statue, housing papal tombs inside.
“This majestic 12th-century cathedral contains the elaborate tombs of popes Jean XXII and Benoît XII. Crowning the top is a 19th-century gilded statue of the Virgin.”
– Frommer's
Fodor's "Built in a pure Provençal Romanesque style in the 12th century, this cathedral was soon dwarfed by the extravagant palace that rose beside it." Full review
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