Angers Chateau

Next day was a busy one, the Angers chateau, the Apocalypse tapistry, the cathedral, walking about the old town, and then over by the museum of contemporary tapistry. And free wifi.

Vicki on the long staircase from the river up o the cathedral;
a right turn takes you to the chateau

Angers chateau; a giant Medieval fortress; they removed the pepper-pot domes
(the conical black things) back in the16th century, replacing them with gun
platforms; the age of artillery was upon them; it would look a lot more French
with the the pointy domes

Military architects and historians have long criticized the
French for making their castle moats too decorative; but it
does make them look French

Inside the castle, the royal residence and chapel

An original window, 13thcentury

People, like Nature, abhor empty spaces; the French solution, as here in the
otherwise empty chapel, is contemporary art; we'll see much more of this
approach, which sometimes works, further in our travels

Back on the grounds

The governor's residence

Up on the battlements; French battlements, of course, and Anjou is big-time wine
country; note slab stakes, slabs of the local blue schist which is the dominant
building color here (schist happens)

Again from the battlements, the Cathedral of St. Maurice, and its large west towers