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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 408

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le up the valley to the north-west. To reachit we descend from the castle so as to gain the bridgeacross the Loup, and in doing so the steep streets of theold town of Villeneuve, terraced in tiers on the slope of the LA TRINITY. 383 hill, are traversed, and the old church on its fine platformis… … FIG. 214. TOWER OF LA TRliillt (/roill t/u C/iaJ>c(). looks like a loft} pedestal erected to support thecolo.ssal statue of the Virgin and child which nowsurmounts it. l?ut on closer inspection it is found to be 384 MEDI.EVAL PERIOD. a remarkable example of a keep, defended with thataccumulation…

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