Anyone who uses low-cost airlines flying to Paris usually arrives at the airport in Beauvais, but hardly anyone stops in this place, but they should for a short while. Beauvais is a charming town where you can feel the real France. In France, people with whom no one knows what to do do not stay in the streets but live in tents, and the famous Parisian thieves are not there. In Beauvais, there is a charming old square, several nice restaurants, and life flows peacefully. Here is also a little forgotten but very important monument of gothic architecture: the cathedral. The Cathedral of St. Pierre in Beauvais is one of the longest gothic cathedrals in the world. Unfortunately, it may disappear from this world soon. The reason for this is the mistaken design of the building that the architects of the cathedral made in the Middle Ages.
This is one of the most sophisticated Gothic cathedrals that was created. It's possible that the architect was the same man who built Gloucester Cathedral. There was the same problem with building construction. The inside of the chimney got a very high vault, and the choir's arcades became more sharp than usual. Changing the original plan and expanding the windows to 48 metres, and too weak a retaining wall system—flying buttress—which discharging the building's weight to the ground, led to the building's collapse—the first collapse of the building. Despite the doubling of the number of pillars in 1284, it did not protect the building from further problems of existence. Today, the building is reinforced by special steel constructions, which are also not able to ensure its eternal existence to the end. In my opinion, the cathedral is much more beautiful than the famous Notre Dame. It is also a building that can disappear soon. In the cathedral, we can also see a great mediaeval clock. St. Pierre, which owns the tallest Gothic vault in the world, is one of the longest Gothic cathedrals in the world. But soon it can be gone.
