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This week's prompt is "Cemetery"
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
Posts: 9590 | Location: Edmonds, WA | Registered: 25 October 2001
There is a great cemetery up above the old town in Menton. Menton was a refuge for tuberculosis during the early 20th century. Many people came from throughout Europe for the warm climate in hope that would cure or help. Unfortunately, it did not. There are graves of many Counts from Russia and along with English.
Posts: 9590 | Location: Edmonds, WA | Registered: 25 October 2001
Here is another cemetery - this on is at Lioux in the Luberon just below the Falaise (rock cliff). We were on the way back after hiking to the top when we passed the town cemetery in the setting sun.
Posts: 9590 | Location: Edmonds, WA | Registered: 25 October 2001
A Loire Valley cemetery. I like the way there seems almost to be a dialogue between the houses and the graves, with the cross in front leading the congregation.
One of the saddest cemeteries I've ever visited is in Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. On June 10, 1944, for no apparent reason, Nazi soldiers arrived in the village and rounded up all the residents. 642 men, women and children were massacred.
This is the memorial in the cemetery for two twin brothers, age 8.
Our visit to the ruined village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 2005 was an extremely moving experience.
Just got back from France last night. During our trip, we visited both the American cemetery above Omaha beach as well as Oradour sur Glane, both heartrending places. This memorial in Ile de Re caught my eye not only because of the propeller--the gravestones were all in English, and several of them were engraved "Known Only to God." They were RAF World War II pilots shot down over Ile de Re, near La Rochelle on the west coast.
Posts: 44 | Location: Amelia Island | Registered: 25 December 2005
On evening walks from the gite where we are currently staying in the Dordogne, we have this view of a village church and cemetery. You can also see the Dordogne River just between the church and the fields.
One of our favorite cemeteries in the Luberon is the one in the hilltop village of Saignon. It is perched right on the edge of the hill and so has a beautiful view to the north of Mt. Ventoux and the valley of the Calavon, with its small farms and numerous small, distant villages.
