It has been a cold and rainy weekend in Burgundy but finally on sunday afternoon I had good luck and the sun came out. Additionally by chance a slowly moving cloud covered the towers in the foreground which were advantageous for the composition - which could be an allusion tow a description of pope Urban II, who called this place "Light of the world".
One little detail can explain this picture - the decorations of the towers. The left tower has a pennant and a wind rose on the top: It is called "Tour de fromage" some part of the medieval city wall - sword and fire had been still accepted tools of the traveller. The tower on the right belongs to a church from the gothic period and naturally has a cross on the top.
The center tower looks like that it belongs to a church but it is deceiving. It is a ruin of an ancient abbey church of the monks which incited a big spiritual reformation which began around the year 900. The church had been build around 1100 and was the biggest church of the world until the building of St. Peter in Rome. As times went by these monks did loose their reputation in later times by allying with the French kings, so that this abbey had been destroyed nearly completely after the French Revolution. The lilies of the kings and the cock tell that story...
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