2006 Vezeley - Périgueux Walking

..large number of choir stalls for the monks, that once had lived (and sung) here. Some of them showed very detailed carvings...

...or this monkey. The biggest part of the monastry is now owned by some christian sect, that chased us out, when we....

..like this. Maybe the official jester of the monastery...

..a small hotel on a quiet street..

...around noontime, I found a cool place inside the romanesque church in Flavignac. Or Lavignac? Burgnac? Meilhac? Well, I do not remember that precisely..

.....named the abbey after the italian town, from where the relics of Saint-Barthélémy had been moved to here. This made it easier for the relics, to adapt to the new home. A really medieval idea!...

..had a decent cup of coffe opposite the church..

... a village church, where we found a combination of "Our Lady appearing two children" - and a smiling white face in the corner, a couple of hundred years older...

A capital, inside the former abbey church. The "context" could not be reconstructed. It is probably older than the church. The weathered carving seems not very skilled. I could not "translate" the scene. Maybe Abraham..