Posted on February 9, 2022
Nothing to see here…
Three knights in armour chatting on a street in the nearby village of Rancon. Couldn’t have anything to do with it being the day of the medieval fair, could it?
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trios
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Knights, Medieval, Rancon, Threes
Posted on August 20, 2020
Look out from the glass-walled lift that’s installed in the church tower of the medieval town of Sarlat, in the Dordogne, and old buildings is just about all you get.
Posted on April 6, 2020
Above a narrow alleyway in the picturesque town of Sarlat, in the Dordogne, is this old and elaborately decorated window.
Category: Windows Tagged: #MondayWindow, Medieval, Monday Window, Sarlat, Windows
Posted on February 26, 2020
A few years ago, the medieval ‘halle’ (marketplace) in the nearby village of Mortemart was carefully restored, allowing visitors to appreciate the technical complexity of its beamed roof.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Roofs of any kind
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Medieval, Mortemart, Restoration, Roofs
Posted on April 19, 2019
In the medieval streets of the French town of Perigueux, this old-style drainage system disappears up the hill.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Vanishing Point
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Medieval, Perigueux, Street, Vanishing Point
Posted on January 27, 2019
For this week’s Black & White Photo Challenge, Cee wants to see something ‘in the distance’. Perhaps like the main road that can just be seen at the far end of this narrow passageway in the medieval quarter of the town of Perigueux.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: In The Distance
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, In The Distance, Medieval, Perigueux, Perspectice
Posted on October 23, 2018
We’d never been to Perigueux before. We were expecting to see some old buildings but it was quite a surprise to find one hanging in mid-air just outside our hotel down by the river.
It’s known as the ‘eschif’, which translates – rather gloomily – as ‘scaffold’. It was constructed in the first half of the 14th century to straddle the protective wall on which it appears to balance precariously and act as a look-out post. That door isn’t terribly practical now.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Surprise
Category: Travel, Uncategorized Tagged: fpj-photo-challenge, Medieval, Perigueux, Surprise
Posted on May 29, 2018
The medieval Abbaye de la Reau has been extensively renovated in recent years. It has to be said, though, that not much has been done to the 15th-century Tour de Défense (built after the original Abbaye was burnt down by the English: so a bit late then) whose roof collapsed long ago.
The Tour actually isn’t a particularly tall structure (just two stories), although the sense of height is – well, heightened – when you point a camera straight up at the sky.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Height
Category: Composition Tagged: Abbaye de la Reau, Architecture, fpj-photo-challenge, Height, Medieval
Posted on May 4, 2018
Here’s a sight you’re unlikely to see….unless, of course, you happen to be at the annual medieval fair in the nearby village of Rancon.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unlikely
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Medieval, Rancon, Unlikely, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on March 8, 2018
Regular readers – small, select, yet discerning band that you are – may just recall that last October I put up a couple of posts of doors from the southern French town of Cahors. Most of those images were snatched from a little tourist train, driven by a man with a mission to be somewhere else in a hurry. Consequently, many of the images fell even further short of acceptable standards of sharpness and composition than is usually the case.
However, Madame and I enjoyed our first visit so much that recently we returned for a more leisurely couple of days’ exploration. We’re very glad we did, because it is a delightful place with a sizeable medieval quarter, boasting a considerable number of highly photogenic doors that I missed the first time around. So, in the coming weeks, expect scores more doors from Cahors.
May as well start at the beginning; this was the first door I photographed on my recent trip. It’s not even in the old quarter, but it does feature some interesting carved detail, which proved to be quite a common feature, I discovered.
…and where there isn’t so much carved detail, ironwork seems to be the acceptable alternative:
Or you can just have plain old, largely unembellished doors:
Over time, it’s inevitable that some doors will have become redundant and been repurposed:
While some more modern examples clearly still function:
Finally, for this week, a somewhat more colourful example. This gateway leads to what was a medieval hospital.
Thursday Doors 8 March 2018
Category: Doors Tagged: Cahors, Doors, Medieval, Thursday Doors