The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 248
rs,a place whose architecture claims our attention. Beziers is an ancient Roman town, which hasstill a few relics in the shape of Roman walls, but noclassic buildings of any importance. It stands upon asteep hill with almost perpendicular faces towards theriver Orbe, which flov.-s round its base.… … 224 MEDIAEVAL PERIOD. end of the cathedral (Fig. 96), now crowned with a largeblock of building occupied as a House of Detention. The spacious main street of the town ascends the hillfrom the south-east, and presents on either hand indica-tions of the chief industry of the place in the immenseand…
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