Saint-Honorat in Les Alyscamps remains abandoned. Home only to the people who may wander into it, and not many seem to. Home to the critters who might sleep in its corners. Massive stone columns support the heavy, arched, stone ceiling. The shell motif of the font being the church’s only decoration. Fonts are often placed [...]
Photo Of The Day: Saint-Honorat In Les Alyscamps
The first time I visited this church there were no internal lights. There were puddles of water throughout the church and I had to watch where I stepped to avoid sloshing through them and getting my feet wet. When I visited this place for the first time, it was in a state that made me [...]
Les Alyscamps
Walking down the wide, poplar tree-lined path that leads through what is now a sort of jardin, I couldn’t help but notice that the place had not changed in the hundred years since Van Gogh painted this tableau, maybe (probably, no, without a doubt) longer. The Roman sarcophagi lining both sides of the avenue lay [...]
