barcelona, catalonia

basilica de la sagrada família, antonio gaudí

crucifix above altar

park güell, mosaic by gaudí

santa maria de montserrat

hermitage de sant joan

on montserrat mountain

bretagne

l'église notre-dame de locmaria, 11th century

festival of the treujenn-gaol (lit., "cabbage reed"), the breton clarinet, glomel (central brittany).

playing leaves

la pointe du raz, the second westernmost point of france.

port manech

carnac, a neolithic site with over 3,000 menhirs ("long stones"). 

it's one of the largest such sites in the world

mégalithiques de lagatjar near camaret-sur-mer, c. 2500 bce

ruin of saint-pol-roux manor, camaret-sur-mer. saint-pol-roux was a french symbolist poet born in 1861. in june 1940, a nazi soldier broke into his home and raped saint-pol-roux's daughter, divine. saint-pol-roux escaped to brest and died of a broken heart, they say, after he learned his manor and unpublished manuscripts had been burned.

l'ariège, midi-pyrénées

château de foix, c. 987

street detail, foix

on the road to andorra