Wednesday, September 01, 2010

September 1 -- early evening in Tours

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Our chosen restaurant was supposed to open at 7:00 pm, so we wandered around until 7:00. Unfortunately, the doors were still shut, with no sign of activity, at 7:00. We wandered some more, in the area near the restaurant.

New gutter pipes on old stones.



Here's what's above.



This is their next-door neighbor.





I bet that the light-colored parts are new.




Definitely new.



Looks pretty clean inside, too.

See the thing on the pier at right?  For someone to stand in (presumably to speak)?

That's the same sort of thing that had the incredibly delicate carved flowers, in La Rochelle.  If anyone knows what it's called, please share that info.  Thanks.



Still boggled at the size and intricacy of these buildings, especially given the technology available at the time they were built.




There are small chapels in all the cathedrals.  You could purchase and light a candle which, I expect, helps support the cathedral.

Had they had any that were in hope of world peace, or something general like that, I'd have bought one.  As I don't know the saints and what they stand for, I ... didn't.


The painting looks old; the pier looks new....



New glass.  I quite like this.



This is Large.  We got as far away from the front as we could, and still could not quite get the whole thing in one pic.



If the whiter areas are new, it's a sign that people in the last 60 years or so still had the skills to do this sort of work.  I surely hope that will continue to be true.  I bet these buildings have not seen their last round of destruction-at-the-hand-of-man.  I hope I'm wrong.....



Walking away, twiddling our thumbs, waiting for dinner.............





The yellow banners have an opera schedule.




Ah yes.  "Municipal Theatre."



With fancy gates.



In order to facilitate chronological traverse of these posts, here is a link to the post that comes after this one.

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

"See the thing on the pier at right? For someone to stand in (presumably to speak)?

That's the same sort of thing that had the incredibly delicate carved flowers, in La Rochelle. If anyone knows what it's called, please share that info. Thanks."

I believe that is the pulpit.

I need orange said...

Thanks.

I bet you are correct. I looked at Google images for "cathedral pulpit" and found several similar items (though also, confusingly, several other structures that don't look like places from which to speak).

One thing that is perplexing is that the member of our party who has attended mass in cathedrals reports that all the speaking was done from the area in front of the altar, rather than from this sort of structure.

Wondering when a pulpit is used, in a cathedral...........