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This week's prompt is "Steps"
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Posts: 9490 | Location: Edmonds, WA | Registered: 25 October 2001
OK, SOMEBODY had to do it. An obvious choice, perhaps a trite choice, the subject of many postcards. Still I like it - steps to Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Paris. Linda
Posts: 915 | Location: Outlying area of Chicago | Registered: 15 September 2004
Some of the countless "steps" taken by those involved in one of the manifestations perpetually taking place somewhere in Paris (this one was in the 5th, on rue St Michel, I think)
You think the Chartres cathedral isn't that large? I thought so, too! When we arrived, we walked up to the grand lady herself and I was shocked at how absolutely huge it really is!
Here's a photo of my son, Michael, standing on the steps leading up to the south portal of the cathedral. He's 6'4", not a little guy by any stretch, but he is dwarfed by this magnificent structure, as you can see.
The pilgrims of ancient times approached the cathedral on their knees as penitents, climbed these stone steps on their knees, and then walked the huge labyrinth inside...on their knees. I have nothing at all to complain about when I'm going to church in this day and age!
"Chartres alone, of all the great medieval churches, has survived into the 20th century almost intact, not only architecturally but with its vast inconographic program in 12th-and 13th-century stained glass and sculpture." ~ Malcolm Miller's book review Brenda
Giant steps all over the earth could be taken by visitors to La Terre Vue du Ciel ( Earth from Above) exposition at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris in 2000. Truly extraordinary photographs of the earth taken from helicopter by Yann Arthus-Betrand were mounted on the wrought-iron fences that surround the garden, and this walkable relief map between the Palais du Luxembourg and the gardens showed where each photograph was taken (identified by the thumbnails you can see in the picture).
You had to take off your shoes to traverse this world, and it was unexpectedly moving to "walk" among these places after seeing the pictures. I remember, as you can see here too, that people actually tended to take very small steps once they had a sense of how interconnected it all was, almost as if they were afraid of damaging something they coudn't see...
In checking a detail for this post I learned that the exhibition will be in New York City from May 1 to June 28, 2009. If you're anywhere around, don't miss it!
Steep steps (60 of them) leading to the Cathedrale Notre Dame in Le Puy-en-Velay.
We began our "Robert Louis Stevenson" walk in Le Puy this summer. Le Puy is also one of the starting points for a much longer walk, the Santiago de Compostela to Spain. Every morning pilgrims beginning that journey come to the cathedral to be blessed.
Angelina's in Paris has some delicious food! They also serve a mean chilled champagne for lunch, along with a pot of tea and a sweet. The bathrooms are at the top of these stairs, and is one of the prettiest public washrooms that I've seen in a cafe or restaurant. Here's a photo that I took this past July on one of my visits to Angelina's with my granddarling...
"The greatest step is out the door." ~ German proverb Brenda
The horse-shoe staircase at the Château de Courances just south of Paris, near Fontainebleau. This one is patterned on the one at the palace in Fontainebleau, in fact.
Originally posted by SL Jones: OK, SOMEBODY had to do it. An obvious choice, perhaps a trite choice, the subject of many postcards. Still I like it - steps to Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Paris. Linda
What a gorgeous photo! I have never seen these steps before and glad you posted it! I'll visit the site when I am in Paris.
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Posts: 39 | Location: Somerville, MA | Registered: 31 August 2005
This is me descending the stairs at the Arc de Triomphe. I actually wasn't trying to stop my friend David from taking the picture, it just looks that way.
I remember those stairs very well. Going up was bad enough, but coming down, I got very dizzy and there's not much space to stop and take a break. But the view from the top was well worth it!
