Scenery

Few ordinary scenery, that I know well, each time I passing by, they give me different views.

April / May 2022.

Winter

January 2022.

Pont de Segré

An old railway bridge, become a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists.

April 2021.

Railway station

August 2020.

Barré bridge

It’s a bridge (Pont Barré) over the river Layon, built in XI century, restored in 1988.

The river Layon, was sort of  a frontier between the region Anjou and Poitou.  The bridge Barré was a demarcation point between Republicans and Royalists during the Vendée War (1793).

As at those days, the tax of salt was higher in Anjou then in Poitou. there were farm soldiers on the bridge controlled the traffic of salt between these two regions.

Barré bridge (Pont Barré)

next to the Barré bridge, an other one was built for today’s traffic

war memorial on the bridge

There are vineyards around the valley Layon, a very good white vin Coteau de Layon is from here.

vineyard by the river layon

old vin making tools

April 2019.

 

 

La Loire

Bridge and village.

June 2018.