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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 827279" data-attributes="member: 53455">A village in red (2017)Collonges-la-Rouge (“Collonges the Red”) is a Mediæval and Renaissance village in the Dordogne region of France (that’s in the southwestern quadrant of the country). A priory was founded here in 782 by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Charroux, and the village developed around it. It was also a useful overnight stop on the path to Compostela via Rocamadour.Most of the historic homes that can still be seen today are from the 16th century, and terribly picturesque, of course. The local sandstone is colored by two percent iron oxide, which gives it this distinctive color, a bit like in Alsace (for the same reason). Collonges is listed among the Plus beaux villages de France, i.e., the “Most beautiful Villages of France”, and therefore impossibly over–touristed in the Summer.Nikon D810, Nikkor 35mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]413257[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 827279, member: 53455"] [B]A village in red (2017)[/B] Collonges-la-Rouge (“Collonges the Red”) is a Mediæval and Renaissance village in the Dordogne region of France (that’s in the southwestern quadrant of the country). A priory was founded here in 782 by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Charroux, and the village developed around it. It was also a useful overnight stop on the path to Compostela via Rocamadour. Most of the historic homes that can still be seen today are from the 16th century, and terribly picturesque, of course. The local sandstone is colored by two percent iron oxide, which gives it this distinctive color, a bit like in Alsace (for the same reason). Collonges is listed among the [I]Plus beaux villages de France,[/I] i.e., the “Most beautiful Villages of France”, and therefore impossibly over–touristed in the Summer. Nikon D810, Nikkor 35mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld. [ATTACH type="full"]413257[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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