Cemeteries in Carcassonne, France
A video from my visits this summer to three cemeteries in the town of Carcassonne in the south of France. All this was a pretty amazing sight to me, because cemeteries in Norway are SO different. The first cemetery in the video is the one in the suburb of Montlegun, the second is the Cimetiere de St Vincent, and the third the Cimetiere de la Cité just outside the medieval fortified city, which can also be seen a little bit in the video.
Small Travel Gems: Rouen, France
Rouen, France
Rouen, the capital of French department of Seine-Maritime, and also the historic capital of Normandy. Rouen is also known as city of a hundred bells steeple.
The city has about 100,000 inhabitants and is situated on the river Seine. The old town is on the right bank. The center of old Rouen has many half-timbered houses (in streets: Rue de la Vicompte, Rue Ecuyere, Rue du Gros Horloge..)
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Rouen is an ancient city with a long history (since 1st century AC). The Romans named it as Rotomagus. In the 3rd century Rouen became a mean bishop seat .
During the Hundred Years War, the city fell into the English's hands (1419). In 1431, in Rouen was Joan of Arc put to death as a heretic (burned at the stake).
Rouen has a major cathedral, which dates from the 13th century, but only in the 19th century was completed. Cathedral of Rouen ... In the period between 13th and 20th century was several times destroyed, burned, and suffered a lot, but it was always rebuilt. The highest tower on the cathedral named La Tour Grêle is the highest bell tower in France (151 m).
The symbol of Rouen is another monument, the Gros Horloge, a large medieval clock that hangs above the street Rue du Gros-Horloge.
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Ruan, glavni grad francuskog regiona Seine-Maritime i vazi za centar istorijskih zbivanja u Normandiji. Ruan je takođe poznat kao grad sa sto zvonika.
Grad ima oko 100.000 stanovnika, a nalazi se na reci Seni.Stari grad je na desnoj obali. Centar starog Ruana se sastoji od mnostva starih kuća sagradjenih od drvenih greda (u ulicama: Rue de la Vicompte, Rue Ecuyere, Rue du Gros Horloge ..)
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Rouen je grad sa dugom istorijom ( od prvog veka Nove ere). Rimljani su ga nazvali Rotomagus. U 3. veku Ruan postaje sediste episkopije.
U toku Stogodisnjeg rata, grad je pripao Englezima (1419).
U 1431, u Rouenu je Ivanka Orleanka spaljena na lomaci.
Katedralu u Ruanu je prvi put bila sagradjena u 13. veku, ali je tek u 19. veku bila u potpunosti završena. U razdoblju između 13. i 20. veka bila je nekoliko puta rusena, paljena (i u toku II sv. rata) , ali uvek je bila obnovljena. Najviši toranj na katedrali pod nazivom La Tour Grêle je ujedno i najviši zvonik u Francuskoj (151 m).
Simbol Ruana je Gros Horloge, veliki srednjovekovni sat koji visi iznad ulice Rue du Gros-Horloge.
Figeac France
Figeac is een Franse gemeente in de regio Occitanie. Het is met ongeveer 10.000 inwoners de op een na grootste gemeente in het departement Lot.
Figeac heeft zich in de Middeleeuwen, op het kruispunt van Auvergne, Rouergue en Quercy ontwikkeld tot een van de meest florerende middeleeuwse steden. Wat bijzonder is aan Figeac is dat een relatief groot deel van de oude bebouwing bewaard is gebleven, de stad heeft veel oude monumenten.
Figeac is gelegen aan de rivier de Célé, een zijrivier van de Lot.
Bezienswaardigheden
Figeac heeft veel oude bebouwing, al in de Belle Époque (de periode voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog) is een begin gemaakt met het behouden van het cultureel erfgoed, is het Hôtel de la Monnaie gerestaureerd. Nog steeds is het een van de hoogtepunten in Frankrijk van de middeleeuwse bouwkunst. Met name de zuidgevel toont nog de originele opzet met de arcades. In Figeac is de ontwikkeling van het bouwen van de 12e tot de 14e eeuw goed terug te vinden. The construction of the large houses (hôtels) of the wealthy merchants was on the ground floor the workshop/the warehouse, in the front the arcades with the display window. The living room was on the first floor is via a narrow spiral staircase. The attics were mostly dry attics, for drying fruit, dyed fabrics and the like. The decoration of the facades was to early 13th century romance, with bearded characters, mythical animals and stylised leaf motifs, as seen on the Maison du Griffon. The subsequent French Gothic is characterised by the larger Windows and the graceful leaf motifs. The fourteenth century is characterized by the luxurious stone palaces of the oligarchy of Figeac (b. v. Hôtel d'Auglanat). The construction of the large houses (hôtels) of the wealthy merchants was on the ground floor the workshop/the warehouse, in the front the arcades with the display window. The living room was on the first floor is via a narrow spiral staircase. The attics were mostly dry attics, for drying fruit, dyed fabrics and the like. The decoration of the facades was to early 13th century romance, with bearded characters, mythical animals and stylised leaf motifs, as seen on the Maison du Griffon. The subsequent French Gothic is characterised by the larger Windows and the graceful leaf motifs. The fourteenth century is characterized by the luxurious stone palaces of the oligarchy of Figeac (b. v. Hôtel d'Auglanat).In de Renaissance volgt een nieuwe generatie van huizen, de vensters worden nog groter, de toegangen van de huizen van de gegoede burgers worden monumentale trappen met fijnbewerkte deuren (bijvoorbeeld het Maison de Galiot de Genouillac).
Opvallend is op de Place des Écritures de enorme afbeelding van de steen van Rosetta, gemaakt in zwart graniet door de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Joseph Kosuth. Het is een monument voor het levenswerk van Jean-François Champollion, samen met de bijbehorende ruimtes met een vertaling in het Frans van de tekst op de steen en een tuin met onder meer papyrus, verwijzend naar het oudste papier waarop geschreven werd.
In Figeac bevindt zich het Champollion Museum, dat gewijd is aan de Egyptische kunst.
De Chemin du Puy, de 18 km lange pelgrimsroute tussen Figeac en Montredon, is opgenomen op de Werelderfgoedlijst van de UNESCO. Figeac is a French commune in the region of Occitanie. It is with approximately 10,000 inhabitants the second largest commune in the Lot department in South-Western France. Figeac has developed in the middle ages, at the crossroads of Auvergne, Rouergue and Quercy developed into one of the most flourishing medieval cities. What special about Figeac is that a relatively large part of the old buildings has been preserved, the city has a lot of ancient monuments. Figeac is located on the river Célé River, a tributary of the Lot. Sights Figeac has many old buildings, all in the Belle Époque (the period before the first world war) a start was made on the preservation of the cultural heritage, the Hôtel de la Monnaie restored. Still, it is one of the highlights of the medieval architecture in France. In particular the south facade still shows the original intent with the arcades. In Figeac is the development of building from the 12th to the 14th century. The construction of the large houses (hôtels) of the wealthy merchants was on the ground floor the workshop/the warehouse, in the front the arcades with the display window. The living room was on the first floor is via a narrow spiral staircase. The attics were mostly dry attics, for drying fruit, dyed fabrics and the like. The decoration of the facades was to early 13th century romance, with bearded characters, mythical animals and stylised leaf motifs, as seen on the Maison du Griffon. The subsequent French Gothic is characterised by the larger Windows and the graceful leaf motifs. The fourteenth century is characterized by the luxurious stone palaces of the oligarchy of Figeac (b. v. Hôtel d'Auglanat).