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- Hospices de Beaune - bult in 1452; patients were treated here until 1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospices_de_Beaune - Île de la Cité, from the Pont de Arts, Paris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_de_la_Cit%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_des_Arts - In the French Pyrenees, looking south at the 6,617 ft. 'Pic d'Orhy', on the border with Spain
(from 43 Degrees North, 1 Degree West) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_d%27Orhy http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=21549 - In the Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization, Lyon
- It never gets old...
- Jonas Caves
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jonas-caves - Jonas Caves
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jonas-caves - Jonas Caves
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jonas-caves - La Rochelle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rochelle#Tourism - La Rochelle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rochelle#Tourism - Lyon was a major Roman city (named Lugdunum). This Roman amphitheatre is still used for concerts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Theatre_of_Fourvi%C3%A8re https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugdunum https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ancient-roman-theaters-of-lyon - No, not a drone photo; a photo from the top of a church tower - in Saint-Émilion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-%C3%89milion - On the Greenwich Meridian - and halfway between the Equator and the North Pole
http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=21545 - On top of 'Puy de Dôme', there's an impressive-looking array of 21st Century communication equipment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy_de_D%C3%B4me - One of the relatively few pieces of modern art that I liked at the Pompidou Centre
Although it's not particularly 'modern'; it's more than 70 years old. Fernand Léger - 'Les acrobates en gris', 1942-1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Georges_Pompidou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_L%C3%A9ger