Picspam - Avignon Part 1

[debitha]

So maybe I do have time for more than a meme. But after this I'm going to bed.


Le Pont de Avignon (Yes, we danced upon it. I need to get the pics off Mum.)


Make Windows In Your Fake Windows


Rue Peyrollerie (It doesn't look it, but it's one of the main streets aroun the Popes' Palace.)


The Doors of St Pierre


Augustinian Monastery (The Carmelite Nuns a few doors down must have loved that.)


Fort St Andre at Villeneuve

Comments

[mrsalemp.livejournal.com]

I love your picspams :)

[kittiword.livejournal.com]

I second this love :D

The Windows picture and the last picture has me absolutely fascinated. The designs! And that Fort looks so big.

[debitha.livejournal.com]

The windows were really neat - there were a lot of walled up windows, so people painted them up with scenes as though you were seeing through a real window.

The fort was very large. When Avignon was not part of the Frankish kingdom, the Popes moved there from Rome. The French King was a bit worried about having someone that powerful parked right on his border, so he built a great big fuck off fort as a polite warning not to get any ideas about his territory.

[kittiword.livejournal.com]

I love it, architecture love picspam AND a history lesson from you. Thanks Deb!

Thats really cool about the windows-such a fascinating way to be so artistic.

[debitha.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of closeups of the windows around town. I'll post once I've got all my pics up on Flickr.

I can't help myself - history is really interesting to me. I don't know how people manage to make it boring. (But they totally do.)

[debitha.livejournal.com]

That's good to know, because I think there are going to be a LOT of them. :o)