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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wish
Posted on March 9, 2017
“And you: what’s your dream?”
This graffito was spotted on a wall in the city of Limoges.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Magic
Posted on November 19, 2016
For those who believe that there is a rational explanation for just about everything, ‘magic’ is – by definition – something that isn’t real: in other words, an illusion. So here’s an, admittedly very impressive, example of an illusion.
In the centre of Limoges this medieval building dominates the Place de la Motte. Except that it’s neither medieval nor even a building – it’s a gigantic and brilliantly rendered trompe l’oeil mural, painted on the side of a much more modern edifice. The cat at top left isn’t real either (although the satellite dish is).
Not that I want to puncture the illusion, but here’s a wider-angle perspective:
Tuesdays of Texture: Statuary
Posted on August 16, 2016
A fortuitous angle of light source helps to bring out the textures of these statuettes, which are located up on a wall of a side chapel in the cathedral of Limoges:
Thursday Doors: Limoges (second encore)
Posted on August 4, 2016
Previously I’ve posted a couple of doors to be found in Limoges, both old and new. For the sake of completeness, here are a few more.
These two are to be found in the old part of the city: formerly a street of traders, it’s now given over largely to art shops and restaurants:
This next pair I’ve put together as opposites: one bricked up and one disappeared almost completely:
And finally, doors old and new right next to each other at the top of this flight of stairs:
Thursday Doors 4 August 2016
Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up
Posted on July 12, 2016
The Ostensions is a religious festival that takes place every seven years, over the spring and summer. 2016 is one of those years.
During this period, relics of the saints are paraded through the main towns in the region.
For the period of the Ostensions, the cathedral at Limoges and its surroundings are bedecked by colourful bunting.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Face
Posted on May 14, 2016
Shouldn’t that be ‘vin’?
Posted on May 9, 2016
As one of France’s leading utility companies, EDF (Électricité de France) supplies something without which modern civilised life would be quite impossible.
As well as electricity.
Thursday Doors: Limoges (encore)
Posted on March 31, 2016
After the modern automatic doors at Limoges’ railway station a few weeks ago, here is something much older from the city’s medieval quarter, very close to the Cathedral of St. Étienne. It’s obviously a bespoke job.
Thursday Doors 31 March 2016
Cour du Temple
Posted on March 25, 2016
In the old part of the city of Limoges, tucked away behind the tall façade of a terrace of buildings that are themselves quite old, is the Cour du Temple. Reached through a narrow, sloping covered passage, this is a small cloister surrounded on all sides by medieval buildings four or five storeys high. This is one corner:
[Taken more than one, but less than two, weeks ago so hopefully qualifying for Cee’s latest challenge – taking a new photo]
Thursday Doors: Limoges
Posted on March 3, 2016
Our nearest city is Limoges, the capital of the Haute-Vienne département. Not surprisingly, it has a major railway station, the Gâre des Bénédictins. The current structure was built in the late 1920s and, according to Wikipedia, has been named the most beautiful rail station in Europe.
It boasts an impressive clock-tower, a large dome over the main hall and stained-glass windows. These certainly help to lift the necessarily utilitarian features of the building a little out of the ordinary, as in this otherwise unremarkable side-door (the exit to the car-park)
Thursday Doors 3 March 2016
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