Friday, September 21, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Place Saint Louis
This is a place where I used to live in Metz (Lorraine, France). It's currently being renovated.
When I look at this picture I trully feel this is still middle age.
In the middle age, under the arcades, 60 bankers were installed, the former name of the place "place des Changes" recalls this activity.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Gargoyle
I like this one, very creepy, strange creature ready to jump.
In architecture, gargoyles are the carved terminations to spouts which convey water away from the sides of buildings. The term originates from the French gargouille, originally the throat or gullet.
A local legend that sprang up around the name of St. Romanus ("Romain") (631 – 641 A.D.), the former chancellor of the Merovingian king Clotaire II who was made bishop of Rouen, relates how he delivered the country around Rouen from a monster called Gargouille, having the creature captured by the only volunteer, a condemned man. The gargoyle's grotesque form was said to scare off evil spirits so they were used for protection. In commemoration of St. Romain the Archbishops of Rouen were granted the right to set a prisoner free on the day that the reliquary of the saint was carried in procession.
A local legend that sprang up around the name of St. Romanus ("Romain") (631 – 641 A.D.), the former chancellor of the Merovingian king Clotaire II who was made bishop of Rouen, relates how he delivered the country around Rouen from a monster called Gargouille, having the creature captured by the only volunteer, a condemned man. The gargoyle's grotesque form was said to scare off evil spirits so they were used for protection. In commemoration of St. Romain the Archbishops of Rouen were granted the right to set a prisoner free on the day that the reliquary of the saint was carried in procession.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
Gargoyle
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Sunset 2
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Sunset
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Another one from the circus
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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