Cathédrale Notre Dame de Laon

In the center of the upper town of Laon is the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, with the Town Hall (1838-1854). The Cathedral of Notre-Dame with its seven towers, built in the 12th-13th C on the site of an earlier church, is one of the finest Early Gothic churches in France and provided the model for other large cathedrals. The west front with its three deeply recessed and richly decorated doorways and its beautiful rose window is flanked by twin towers.