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SUMMER IN FRANCE 2006

CROSSING THE ALPS

VIA THE COL DE MONTGENEVRE

TO AN ABBOT'S PALACE IN ITALY

 

Starting Point - Gordes in Provence

 

Dom P had firmly locked away the cameras - it was to be just a relaxed driving day across the Alps.  But the Dutch and German campervans thinned out as he headed north into the roads less / not travelled by tourists, and the temptation became too great as the car climbed the beautiful broad valley past the Lac de Serre-Ponçon  and on to Briançon and the Col de Montgenevre ....

 
Into the foothills with a curious spectator
Lac de Serre-Ponçon
Abbeye de Boscodon
Nearing the top

Italian destination - the Cistercian Abbazia di Chiaravalle della Colomba (1136) near Fidenza, and the 15 room **** Hotel della Commenda in the beautifully "deeply restored" 1400s Abbot's Palazzo (below) - now firmly on Dom P's favourites list, especially after Barbara, who handles the restaurant, remembered him and the wine he chose from a year ago!  To get there leave the A1 at "Fiorenzuola" and head along the main road (via Emilia) for Parma.  The Abbey is signposted to the left twice, the more obvious time being the second in Alseno.  This very reasonably priced four starer is also an ideal base for those wanting to be next door to where Giuseppe Verdi was born and lived.

Bellatrovata is the "on the road" travel site for Adrian Fletcher and his main website Paradoxplace.  The photographs and commentary first published here are later extended and added to Paradoxplace, a place full of  the art, books, history and stories of the movers and shakers of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Renaissance Italy and the East - plus Italian Food and European Photo Galleries. 

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2007 Home Page Ciao Adriano Paradoxplace Domparadox 2006 Home Page 2006 Page List Abbeys Visited Italy June 2006 Spello Infiorata East of Panzano France Vignory Alpine Crossing Senanque Abbey Valmagne Abbey Fontfroide Abbey Spain & Portugal Al-Andalus Chronology Poblet Monastery Santes Creus Monastery Rueda Monastery Navarra Sanguesa La Oliva Lyre Abbey Canas Abbey La Rioja S-D de Silos Burgos Villasirga Camino to Burgos Rio Elsa Treasures Leon Camino to Leon S de Compostela Alcobaca Batalha North to Evora Salema Sao Vicente Rabida & Colombus NW Andalucia SW Andalucia Central Spain 2005 Home Page 8 Tuscan Days 2004 Home Page

 

Bellatrovata and Paradoxplace are the creations of Adrian Fletcher

about bellatrovata.com

 

All original material © Adrian Fletcher 2000-07 - The contents may not be reproduced without permission.

Feedback and comments to Adrian Fletcher