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Best Spots for Stunning Views of Paris
Climb up the 223 foot (67 meters) stone staircase for an encounter with strange stone creatures that might have inspired Tolkien’s works on the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those 400 steps take you into a different world. Fantastic gargoyles in the form of half-man, half-beast creatures, serpents and strange mixtures of talons, tongues, and claws look out over the city of Paris. Quasimodo, Victor Hugo’s famous bell ringer inThe Hunchback ofNotre Dame, isn’t one of the gargoyles, but it’s easy to imagine him up here looking out over the roofscape.