Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Carcassonne 2012, Faith Foundations, Holidays
The journey through the gorges opened up into a large car-park, which was quite a relief after the narrow road. From that viewpoint you can see the quaint hermitage built into the rocky outcrop.
Since the seventh century, the natural grottes of Galamus, ” the holy mount “, have become
a refuge for the hermits . [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2012
We are now in the small village that I mentioned in a previous post:
On one very narrow turn a man came out of his house. I think he was going to assist to make sure his house didn’t get hit, I noticed there were some bumps and scrapes on the house opposite!! The corner was [...]
5 Comments CherryPie on Aug 4th 2012
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 23rd 2012
Filed under Carcassonne 2012, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays
The Basilique Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Celse de Carcassonne was formerly the cathedral of Carcassonne. In 1801 it was replaced by the present Carcassonne Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Michel de Carcassonne).
The present church is in origin a Romanesque of the 11th century, consecrated by Pope Urban II in 1096. It was built on the site of a Carolingian cathedral, of [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 2nd 2012
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The walled city (La Cite) of Carcassonne was built on the site of a former Roman fortress. The city is protected by two heavily fortified walls and has no less than 52 towers and barbicans. In medieval times Simon de Montfort led crusades against the Albigensians (Cathars) whom the Catholic Church had branded as [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 23rd 2012
The Museum of the Gorge was originally built as a warehouse for the Coalbrookdale Company in 1838 in a picturesque gothic style and was linked by horse-drawn plateway to the furnaces up the valley in Coalbrookdale. Iron products were stored here prior to shipment down the River Severn and onto the markets of the world. [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on May 14th 2012
From a plaque next to the kilns:
Under tremendous heat, rock-hard limestone was transformed into powdery-fine lime in the lime kilns that you see. Limestone, first quarried and later mixed, was brought from vast deposits on Lincoln Hill, which rises behind the kilns. Though lime kilns have been found in the Gorge since medieval [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 1st 2012
