Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Hospital St. Jean/Musee Jean Lurcat

As I said, the camping aire in Angers is within a few hundred meters of everything. After our morning and afternoon tours, I took a walk around the neighborhood, and mostly the Medieval Hospital St. Jean, which is now the Jean Lurcat museum of contemporary tapistry.
In the neighborhood, someone has made a contemporary
house from the city wall















In the St. Jean/Lurcat garden


















Ditto


















In the medicinal garden














Absinthe














More of the old garden


















Everywhere you look, there is something
worth looking at



















The great 13th century  hospital














Current temporary exhibit at the museum


















More of the garden grounds














Inside the great hospital/museum; perhaps the largest
secular Medieval building I have seen















Apothecary














A block away, a shrine for the poor


















And the 14th century hospital storehouse














With its contemporary but presumably Medieval-like
vaulting; now available for receptions; a wedding reception
was going on as I stuck my head in; everyone receiving
rose plants as they left...

















Walking back to the aire, the chapel of the Hospital

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