We next went to Avignon another medieval town on the Rhone. This is a view across the Rhone looking to the Notre Dam des Doms cathedral and the Popes Palace. From 1305 to 1377 Avignon was the home of ther Popes which led to a schism in the Catholic Church at that period.
The Gilded Statue of the Virgin Mary.
The famous Pont D'Avignon (actually the Pont Saint Benezet) said to be the inspiration for the song we all sang at school -"Sur Le Pont D'Avignon". Sadly the bridge no longer spans the entire river.
The bridge at night (taken just after we had finished our dinner at a small restaurant by the river)
The roman aqueduct which took water to a Mill at Barbegal near Arles. Unfortunately we did not have time to look at the rest of the sites at Arles
The point at which the water arrived at the mill site
The view from the Aire de L'esterel near Cannes on the A80
The view down the coast from our hotel in Rapallo towards the famous Cinque Terre villages
Sunrise from the same balcony
A little later this cruise ship made it's way into the bay. It made me think of the lines from Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
- Day after day, day after day,
- We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
- As idle as a painted ship
- Upon a painted ocean.
A castle on the waterfront at Rapallo both that morning and the night before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapallo
Our Cabin
The view of the old city from the camping park
Another view of the old city
Looking towards the gate of the old city
The view to the west of the old city
The town of Ravenna is not fat north west of Rimini and is noted for it's Byzantine Mosaics. First we visited the Basilica of Vitale which dates from 548AD and the Mausoleum Mausoleum of Galla Placidia which dates from circa 430AD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Vitale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Galla_Placidia
Inside the Basilica of SanVitale
Inside the mausoleum of Galla Placidia
We also visited the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo which dates from circa 500ad
When we left Rapallo, we drove across Italy to the Adriatic Coast where we stayed for three nights in a cabin in a camping park in San Marino, a small independent republic in Italy not far from Rimini.
The Cabins at San Marino
Looking towards the gate of the old city
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Vitale
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