Friday, August 7, 2015

Rennes Tall Half-Timber

After almost two months in Normandy and Brittany, I thought I'd seen everything in the half-timbered realm. Rennes has plenty, as much as Dinant, more than Caen and rivals Rouen. But at Rennes they built big, high, four, five, six stories, higher than any other place we've seen. I'll just post a few of the better ones (including a few standard three-four stories). All of them are centuries old, but, presumably, restored, um, stabilized, and modernized. In most cases. Presumably.




















































































































































































































































































































1 comment:

Tawana said...

Some of them are so narrow! Interesting.