This day we spent visiting Levroux and Château de Valençay!
We began with Levroux, a charming medieval town with around 3000 inhabitants.
It's the central town in this canton and resides over 12 other towns in the area.
As in many small (medieval) towns in France, you will find a lot of well preserved and interesting sites and a history dating back even to pre-medieval times.
This is the case with Levroux and the castle (château) Valençay.
The sculpture below is called The sleeping shepherd or in French Le Berger Couché and the sculptor is Ernest Nivet, a former student to Auguste Rodin.
Nivet should in 2011 have become 100 years old if he still had been alive and this is of course going to be commemorated.
We began with Levroux, a charming medieval town with around 3000 inhabitants.
It's the central town in this canton and resides over 12 other towns in the area.
As in many small (medieval) towns in France, you will find a lot of well preserved and interesting sites and a history dating back even to pre-medieval times.
This is the case with Levroux and the castle (château) Valençay.
The sculpture below is called The sleeping shepherd or in French Le Berger Couché and the sculptor is Ernest Nivet, a former student to Auguste Rodin.
Nivet should in 2011 have become 100 years old if he still had been alive and this is of course going to be commemorated.
This is the church La Collegiale Saint Sylvain:
Below one of the 'gates' or towers formerly protecting the city and through which people had to pass to get in to the city, called Porte de Champagne:
A photo of Maison de Bois, a Gothic building that serves as a halt for the pilgrims heading towards Santiago de Compostela (Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle):
Two heads in the church wall....
..and now we close the door to this town
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