Visiting the Gers
[Having returned home and as we inch into late Fall and Winter with no plans for extended photo trips until next year, I resume uploading the rest of my selected photos from 2020 (10 per day, usually in the morning CET), as well as a selection of my current, 2021 photos (usually 3 or 4 per day, in the evening CET).]
The Gers is a small part of the region of Aquitaine, which covers most of southwestern France. On July 2020, we rented a house for three weeks in the Gers area, and commencing today, I will upload a selection of the photographs I took while we were there. I hope you will enjoy them!
As usual, I will caption more specifically in bold type below whenever necessary.
The large church of Notre-Dame de Vopillon, near the village of Beaumont-sur-Losse, was originally built in the late 1100s to serve as abbey church for a monastery of women founded by the local lord in 1140.
It suffered many trials throughout the Hundred Years War, then the Wars of Religion in the late 1500s, and was finally partly dismantled during the French revolution after it was sold to a private owner as bien national, as were most churches and monasteries.
What remains of the nave , choir and apse let us imagine how beautiful and simple that church was.
Visiting the Gers
[Having returned home and as we inch into late Fall and Winter with no plans for extended photo trips until next year, I resume uploading the rest of my selected photos from 2020 (10 per day, usually in the morning CET), as well as a selection of my current, 2021 photos (usually 3 or 4 per day, in the evening CET).]
The Gers is a small part of the region of Aquitaine, which covers most of southwestern France. On July 2020, we rented a house for three weeks in the Gers area, and commencing today, I will upload a selection of the photographs I took while we were there. I hope you will enjoy them!
As usual, I will caption more specifically in bold type below whenever necessary.
The large church of Notre-Dame de Vopillon, near the village of Beaumont-sur-Losse, was originally built in the late 1100s to serve as abbey church for a monastery of women founded by the local lord in 1140.
It suffered many trials throughout the Hundred Years War, then the Wars of Religion in the late 1500s, and was finally partly dismantled during the French revolution after it was sold to a private owner as bien national, as were most churches and monasteries.
What remains of the nave , choir and apse let us imagine how beautiful and simple that church was.