Le Cirque de Navacelles

Le Cirque de Navacelles is the Grand Canyon of Europe. It is a huge hollow made by a long-defunct bend in a river.


The road to the river at the bottom of it follows the inside of the crater in a very big spiral. In fact the canyon was built by the river Vis.


Nice place!

Conques

Last week I visited two medieval villages in Aveyron district : Conques and Belcastel. Conques is a "ville fleurie" located at the confluence of the Dourdon and Ouche rivers. Stretched on the hillside, the urban area of Conques shuts its church northwards and westwards in a circular arc.

Saint Foy abbey-church was shut in southwards and eastwards by the monastery which accomodated the important benedictine community of Conques. Among its buildings, vanished or rebuilt at the end of the Middle Ages, it only remains a very stylish abbey chapel of flamboyant style which vaults are decorated with frescos ; it just has been restored and returned to cult.

A particularly interesting aspect of the church is the set of carvings. The Last Judgement tympanum at the church Saint Foy reminds me the Last Judgement, mural fresco from Voroneţ Monastery in Romania.