As we are becoming the real "weekenders" and also touched the spring on our door, because no other remedy we have come to visit Albi !!!!! The "ville d'Albi" was a city founded in Roman times, located on the banks of the Tarn and where their clay material have served for centuries to produce the red brick architecture characterize local, very representative, because everything is built of brick, houses, bridges and even the Cathedral of Santa Cecilia (began construction in 1282) highlight the bridge
"Old" one of the oldest in France and still in use, as I told the majestic Brick cathedral, and of course, the Palace of the Berbie, where today is the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, dedicated to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter and most famous son of Albi (1864-1901). You might not know the name, but they sure know some of his drawings, as their posters Parisian Cabarets Moulin Rouge ....
beeing We love the sunday Tourists ... again after a lazy saturday we jump up on a discovery tour in the surroundings of Our hometown. And again we found a place definitely worth Knowing. Albi is one of These medieval French cities Survived Many Centuries in Which Almost an untouched state. Walking around the streets adorable small Sometimes you get the feeling That you're just missing a long robe and a corset (well...i mean if you´re a girl or a drag queen I guess).
Since a year Albi is on UNESCO´s list of World Heritage Sites and I´m only asking myself why only since a year. The red bricks linked by wood logs make the perfect combination where the colourfull shutters are icing on the cake. The walls, sometimes showing the passage of time, mossy or distorted hide stories you´re craving to listen to... and the streets are full of these lovely buildings and the streets are countless... And than, when lost in the labiryths of houses, you discover their hearts- the hidden courtyards, even more mysterious and beautifull than the still representative facades . And when once you get to see some of the courtyards, you turn into a peeper, you become addicted of looking in every keyhole in hope to find a new treasure. Visiting Albi can really get adventorous... and if you get tired off chasing ghosts of the past on the lovely streets, you can take a brake in the garden of the castle: Palais de la Berbie, enjoying the view view on the river, passing by only few meters down, under the Pont Vieux(built in the 11th century- it´s one of the oldest bridges in France) and separating the town in two pieces, or drink a beer (coffee?) at the mainsqure, looking at the monumental Sainte Cécile cathedral (if it couses goose-flesh on me, I can´t even imagine which feelings it woke in people looking at it in the15th century!!!)
I highly recommend visiting the courtyard of the old monastery which is a real oasis of peace in the towncenter.
And if ther is sometime left you could also visit the Henri de Toulouse Lautrec museum. The paintor was born in Albi, but as I´m a fan of his works, I got a bit dissapointed by the museum. There are not many original great works of his to see there...The museum is ok, but if you really want to enjoy (and not end up craving for more , like I did ) the talent of Toulouse Lautrec, you need to go somwhere else... like Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Szorcik: again a wonderful time we did a weekend getaway. The weather this last weekend was more winter than spring-summer, so be able to enjoy a 100% Albi: and that is something to delight you. I feel quite zupelniei mesmerized and enchanted. Poor shaggy not kept, and I had to snap a photo of everywhere ... no but the streets were such a cute! well as breathtaking cathedral denies both!
Con esta visita hoy 20 de marzo, nos ....... despedimos del Invierno y sin remedio, nos entrust to a spring, I hope!, fill us with smiles, friends and surprises ......
BTW! It's spring! And this weekend we Had the perfect springtime / no sleeve weather! Soooo good worm to feel the wind on your face and the sun warming you Delicately ...
beeing We love the sunday Tourists ... again after a lazy saturday we jump up on a discovery tour in the surroundings of Our hometown. And again we found a place definitely worth Knowing. Albi is one of These medieval French cities Survived Many Centuries in Which Almost an untouched state. Walking around the streets adorable small Sometimes you get the feeling That you're just missing a long robe and a corset (well...i mean if you´re a girl or a drag queen I guess).
Since a year Albi is on UNESCO´s list of World Heritage Sites and I´m only asking myself why only since a year. The red bricks linked by wood logs make the perfect combination where the colourfull shutters are icing on the cake. The walls, sometimes showing the passage of time, mossy or distorted hide stories you´re craving to listen to... and the streets are full of these lovely buildings and the streets are countless... And than, when lost in the labiryths of houses, you discover their hearts- the hidden courtyards, even more mysterious and beautifull than the still representative facades . And when once you get to see some of the courtyards, you turn into a peeper, you become addicted of looking in every keyhole in hope to find a new treasure. Visiting Albi can really get adventorous... and if you get tired off chasing ghosts of the past on the lovely streets, you can take a brake in the garden of the castle: Palais de la Berbie, enjoying the view view on the river, passing by only few meters down, under the Pont Vieux(built in the 11th century- it´s one of the oldest bridges in France) and separating the town in two pieces, or drink a beer (coffee?) at the mainsqure, looking at the monumental Sainte Cécile cathedral (if it couses goose-flesh on me, I can´t even imagine which feelings it woke in people looking at it in the15th century!!!)
I highly recommend visiting the courtyard of the old monastery which is a real oasis of peace in the towncenter.
And if ther is sometime left you could also visit the Henri de Toulouse Lautrec museum. The paintor was born in Albi, but as I´m a fan of his works, I got a bit dissapointed by the museum. There are not many original great works of his to see there...The museum is ok, but if you really want to enjoy (and not end up craving for more , like I did ) the talent of Toulouse Lautrec, you need to go somwhere else... like Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Szorcik: again a wonderful time we did a weekend getaway. The weather this last weekend was more winter than spring-summer, so be able to enjoy a 100% Albi: and that is something to delight you. I feel quite zupelniei mesmerized and enchanted. Poor shaggy not kept, and I had to snap a photo of everywhere ... no but the streets were such a cute! well as breathtaking cathedral denies both!
Con esta visita hoy 20 de marzo, nos ....... despedimos del Invierno y sin remedio, nos entrust to a spring, I hope!, fill us with smiles, friends and surprises ......
BTW! It's spring! And this weekend we Had the perfect springtime / no sleeve weather! Soooo good worm to feel the wind on your face and the sun warming you Delicately ...
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