Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Le Puy En Velay's Cathedral

It's Romanesque-old, large, with some interesting frescoes, but in general did not impress. I think we like our cathedrals set firmly in the past, not the present.
Other things situated on rocks in Le Puy en
Velay: St. Michel d'Aiguilhe chapel





















Approaching the main entrance to the cathedral
















Coquille St. Jacques
















At the entrance
















The World Heritage plaque
















Oldish column near the entrance




















Among the more interesting frescoes left
















Another
















Big non-Romanesque organ ( despite the architecture, this
place reeked of Baroque)

















Main feature, the raiment of the Virgin Mary




















Certainly not the "real" raiment; leading me to wonder if they
dress it up on occasion, like the Mannequin Pis; really creepy

















Wheel.....of.....Fortune!
















More fresco
















Early version of the Little Mermaid
















Another column of interest, out on the south
porch





















Pilgrims (pelerins) or possibly pilgrim re-enactors, approaching
the door where they get blessed (The Way is a really good movie
about the contemporary Camino Santiago)


















View of the city from the cathedral grounds
















No funny faces here
















Door to the cloisters not taken; it was too close
to quittin' time





















What we would have seen
















Nice tiled steeples
















Notre Dame de France (metal, 1860s); "Wave
hello to all the people, Baby J!"





















From the aire that evening
















Lasting memory of Le Puy en Velay







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