Vienne
Hotel – B&B Au Bois de Massier
Today we woke up in a lovely B&B called Au Bois de Massier, in the hills above the little town of Vienne. The hotel deserves a separate write-up, so stay tuned for that.
Ville de Vienne
Our hosts tols us that city of Vienne has the 3rd largest concentration of monuments in Europe: Rome and Wien (Austria) take the first and second place. It truns out that Vienne was a major Roman town (with a temple of Augustus and Livia) – a capital of a colony – and a was a a bishopric since later part of the 4th centrury. Consequently there is a number of monuments in the city, some more obvious:Our hosts claim that Vienne has the 3rd largest concentration of monuments in Europe: Rome and Wien (Austria) take the first and second place.
 Temple of Augustus and Livia |
 Mosaic of Orpheus – Gallo-Roman Museum in Vienne |
and some like the Cathedral of St Maurice, a place where the Pope Clement V (at instigation of King Phillip the Fair of France) presided over the council and a tribunal of that ultimately ordered the suppression of the Templars in May of 1312:
Cathedral of St Maurice
