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The cathedral was destroyed yet again in the eighteenth century, this time by Austrian bombardment during the 1746-7 Siege of Antibes. Louis XV of France personally issued an edict for the cathedral's reconstruction in June 1747, and the external form of the building dates largely to this phase of its history.
Cathedral of Antibes (Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea) Grasse Cathedral (Notre-Dame-du-Puy) The former French Catholic diocese of Grasse was founded in the 4th or 5th century as the diocese of Antibes. [1] It was originally suffragan to the archbishop of Aix, and then to the archbishop of Embrun. [2] The see moved from Antibes to Grasse in 1244.
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Antibes (/ ɒ̃ ˈ t iː b /, [3] [4] US also / ɑː n ˈ t iː b z /, [5] French: ⓘ; Occitan: Antíbol) is a seaside city in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France. It is located on the French Riviera between Cannes and Nice; its cape, the Cap d'Antibes, along with Cap Ferrat to the northeast, is one of the best known landforms in the area.
The old town of Antibes, with its two ‘Saracen towers’. The Grimaldi tower is the one on the right. The seigniory of Antibes was given in 1275 to the bishop of Grasse. The Bishop of Grasse retained temporal jurisdiction until the time of Clement VII who, in 1383, transferred it, to the Grimaldi family for 9,000 florins.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Ho Chi Minh City is considered to be one of the main city attractions and one of the most beautiful buildings in all Vietnam. It was built from 1877 to 1880 by the French architect J. Bourad, has a Neo-Romanesque façade with twin towers and a statue of the Virgin Mary in the center front.