25 March 2023
Mars 2015 (5)
This is the Tour Saint-Jacques in Paris. You can read about it in English or in French on Wikiwand if you want encyclopedic information about it. Many of you might have noticed that this blog is not an encyclopedia. Anyway, see this link to some of my other blog posts about and photos of the Saint-Jacques tower.
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The wiki article had some nice old photos of the tower plus a couple of maps.The restored tower is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYes, it did. I'm lucky to have been able to climb up to the top of the St_Jacques tower in 2013 and take in the views of the center of Paris from up there. I'm not sure it is still open to the public. It was 300 steps to the top.
DeleteI remember when you told us about getting to climb it for the first time... that's a whole lot of steps!
ReplyDeleteThis photo is really pretty, with the shades of blue against the color of the stone.
It was a hot and humid day, so climbing all those steps was a challenge.
DeleteThis is an excellent photo!
ReplyDeleteI read the wiki article. Hard to believe the rest of the church was demolished - if I read that correctly. The days before historic preservation, sigh.
ReplyDeleteThe church was torn down so that the stone blocks could be sold as building material.
DeleteThank Anonymous for that input. That was also the fate of the Cluny abbey church, the largest church in the world at the time. Sic transit…
DeleteThat's a shame on both counts! I didn't know about Cluny either, but then I never tried to visit.
DeleteThe same thing happened at Jumièges, near Rouen in Normandy. That anonymous comment was from me. I don't know why it ended up being anonymous.
DeleteThanks Ken - just checked out Jumieges, interesting ruins.
DeleteI had a sneaking suspicion that Anonymous was you. The little that is left of Cluny gives an idea of how big was the whole thing.
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