I also went to Paris this past weekend! But I am planning to upload photos from that trip to Flickr or another photo-sharing website that is more user-friendly than Blogger...
A view from the garden of a café where we stopped to grab something to drink that morning. It was actually a very slow-paced day, which was nice!
There is a story for this... I am pretty sure it has to do with a knight coming in and killing the dragon. And the dragon has a name like.. Graouilly or something! See, if I would have uploaded these that day, then I'd still remember.
Metz Cathedral...note the flying buttresses, a dead give away of the Gothic style...
And to think that they built this place in the 13th century... they're restoring the clocher right now.
Andd here we get to where the Germans came in during the 19th century and started changing things around, namely with the huge, medieval style doors, only remember that they were added in the 19th century.
Yeah, it's a huge cathedral...
There is something unique about this representation of Jesus being condemned to death... If I'm not mistaken, I believe that Laetitia said that Adam was the figure on the right helping to punish Jesus, which is still quite unique.
Stained glass windows from a very long time ago... some of them were actually blown up during the war, so Marc Chagall came and designed new ones. You can't really go wrong - medieval windows that have been there forever or great art from Chagall! At another site in Metz, there is a church with windows from Jean Cocteau, strangely enough (he directed La Belle et La Bête, a surrealist film version of The Beauty and the Beast).
View from the other side of the cathedral - the sun had a weird effect on my camera, but it looks kind of cool.
Temple Neuf de Metz (built by the Germans)
Side tributary of the Moselle
Metz theater / opera
A cool view from under a bridge along the river
Statue of Paul Verlaine - I also saw an original manuscript of "Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit" in the church where he was baptized! Amazing.
Park near L'Arsenal, where the festival is having a concert this week
Four periods of architecture in one place!
A sun dial, whose story Laetitia didn't really know...
Laetitia and I in front of the Centre Pompidou - Metz
Me, Alexandra (another UM intern), and Laetitia
"Échos" The mirror installation by Daniel Buren - looking out at the actual city of Metz
Reflection (the "echo") of Metz
Looking down from the third floor into the Centre Pompidou Metz
Me, Alexandra (another UM intern), and Laetitia
"Échos" The mirror installation by Daniel Buren - looking out at the actual city of Metz
Reflection (the "echo") of Metz
Looking down from the third floor into the Centre Pompidou Metz
AAAH! I'm just looking at this now. Loved that you put all of the pictures up. Gave me a good feeling inside remembering what a great day that was.
ReplyDeleteYour 'Great travling buddy' :)