France 2007
Cheese monger

Market day in Moissac

The south doorway

Carved around 1130 ,vaulted in the Gothic period.

Abbey doorway

in the Abbey doorway

Cloisters

76 different capitals

richly carved

11th cen. Capitals

carved capitals

Richly carved capitals

taking tickets

taking tickets

Square Bishop's Tower

Square Bishop's Tower

Hoardings between towers

Hoardings between towers

Inner courtyard

Inner courtyard

timber gallery

From these timber galleries a whole range of projectiles could be thrown down onto attackers

Carcassone from village

looking towards Carcassone

Pigeon House

Once the privilege of the feudal lords before 1789

Pigeonaire

Pigeon House

old water pump

Water pump

circular corn market

Built in 1852 on the ruins of a former qudrangular one

Wooden house

timber framed house

savonnerie

A soap factory

street art

Street art

Fontevraud Abbey

Romaneseque kitchens

Fish scale roof

Fish scale roof

Kitchen gardens

kitchen gardens

Romanesque chevet

Romanesque chevet

Romanesque chevet

Romanesque chevet

Inner courtyard

Cloister

royal necropolis

Eleanor of Aquitaine & King Henry ll

Abbey church

Abbey Church

doorway

Intricate doorway