So often we find glorious Romanesque churches in the smallest villages of France, often remnants of a remote abbey with a village that grew up around it. Sometimes we see modest parish churches that have survived a thousand years. And other times we find something a little more surprising, a small village that once had […]
The Department of Yonne in Burgundy is one of our favorite places in France and very fertile for our photographic explorations. It is home to the Basilique Sainte Madeleine in Vézelay, the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne in Auxerre, the Collégliale Saint Lazare in Avallon and also the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Sens. Today, Sens is a fairly quiet […]
The waters speak of love, and the breeze, the oars, the little birds, the fish, the flowers, and the grass all together beg me to love forever. Francesco Petrarca PJ and I knew very little about Fontaine-de-Vaucluse when we arrived to photograph the 11th century Romanesque church. We entered the small town and were surprised […]
The abbey church Notre Dame de Bernay is one of the earliest examples of Norman Romanesque architecture that remains to us. It is no longer a consecrated church and currently serves as a community exhibition hall and tourist attraction in the center of the town of Bernay. It was empty when we shot there in […]
Our original post on the famous Abbeye Saint Michel de Cuxa in the Pyrénées-Orientales gives much of the history and description of the church. I won’t repeat those contributions in this post, but will merely show the photographs that were taken to supplement those taken earlier. This time we arrived in the early afternoon at […]
PJ and Dennis Aubrey discuss the famous Basilique Sainte Madeleine in Vézelay, France, one of the greatest Romanesque churches in the world. They have probably spent more time here than in any other church in France and their experiences range from days of perfection in photography to moments of the most personal spiritual reflection. This […]
We discovered the town of Saint-Maurice-la-Clouère in the Vienne quite by accident. We were staying in Montmorillon for three days, about 25 miles away, but this was not the means of discovery. We were visiting our lifelong friend Thérése Gayet in Vivonne and while dining at her house she told us about the church a […]
PJ and Dennis Aubrey discuss the famous Basilique Sainte Madeleine in Vézelay, France, one of the greatest Romanesque churches in the world. They have probably spent more time here than in any other church in France and their experiences range from days of perfection in photography to moments of the most personal spiritual reflection. https://vialucispress.podbean.com/mf/play/9cg93k/Ve_zelay_Episode_1_Master.mp3 […]
The church of San Pedro de la Nave is located in the town of El Campillo, San Pedro de la Nave-Almendra municipal unit in Zamora province, near the Spanish-Portuguese border and about 150 kilometers southwest of León. The visitors are led to the church through a pathway of a contemporary landscape design from the visitor […]
Sometimes PJ and I forget some amazing places and scenes after we finish traveling. This church in Saint-Jean-de-Verges was one of those and is one of the most simple and beautiful Romanesque structures in the Ariège but it had slipped from my memory until looking through the library of our last trip. I am glad […]
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