Illustration - Aerial View of France
FRANCE. BURGUNDY. YONNE (89) VEZELAY: AERIAL VIEW OF THE ETERNAL HILL AND THE VILLAGE FROM THE WEST. IN THE BACKGROUND, THE BASILICA OF SAINTE MARIE MADELEINE. FAMOUS FOR ITS BASILICA (A MASTERPIECE OF ROMANESQUE ART) AND A HIGH PLACE OF CHRISTIANITY, THE SITE, PERCHED ON A HILL, WAS AN ESSENTIAL STOPOVER FOR PILGRIMS ON THEIR WAY TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA AND IS LISTED AS A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE SINCE 1979. SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOUNDED THE FIRST FRANCISCAN MONASTERY IN FRANCE HERE. THE ABBEY HAS BEEN KNOWN THROUGHOUT EUROPE SINCE THE 11TH CENTURY FOR HOUSING THE RELICS OF SAINT MADELEINE. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA004492911
- Registered date
- 2015/7/15 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Compoint Stephane/Only France/ABACA
- Media size
- 5000 × 3333 pixel
- Resolution
- 72 dpi
- Deployment size
- 4.59(MB)*
- Special instruction
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.
