Showing 1-3 of 3 results
-
Basilica of Notre Dame du Port
The highlight of this 12th-century basilica, a magnificent example of Auvergnat-Romanesque architecture, is its choir, into which the light streams on a summer's day. Inside the crypt of the black Virgin statue, pilgrimage ceremonies are held in May.
-
Cathédrale Notre Dame
The soaring, Gothic Cathédrale Notre Dame looks smog-blackened and grim. But the structure's volcanic stones, dug from the quarries of nearby Volvic, were the same blackish-grey hue the day the finishing touches were put to the choir seven centuries ago.
-
Statue of Vercingétorix
Vercingétorix, chief of the Celtic Arverni tribe, almost foiled Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul. With most of Gaul overrun and Caesar slyly playing one tribe off against the other, Vercingétorix pulled together the tribes between the Loire and Garonne rivers and forged a force that could match the Roman legions in discipline.
Showing 1-3 of 3 results
