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Église St-Jacques des Guérets (Guérets - fallow lands; Fallow - uncultivated or ploughed but unsown)
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One branch of the via Turonensis, the pilgrim's road to Santiago de Compostela from Paris, followed the Loir River Valley (not the same as the Loire River Valley - that's bigger and further south!) for a lot of the way from Chartres to Tours. Here are some photos of the little pilgrimage church of St-Jacques des Guérets (Guérets are fallow uncultivated lands). The church dates from the 1100s, with paintings done in the 1100s and 1200s.
The Vendome tourist people list over 20 churches in the area with frescos, but we rather think that most of these are very fragmentary or in at least one case (bad) modern, and that this church and the nearby St-Genest, in Lavardin, are the best for simple beauty and getting a feel for what it was like when churches were painted, which they all were.
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The simple little frescoed medieval pilgrimage church of St-Jacques des Guérets
MORE PHOTOS TO COME
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St-James the Pilgrim
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St-Peter?
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St-Paul?
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AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LOIR, MICHEL COYAULT, CHEF GASTRONOMIQUE, GREETS SUNDAY LUNCH GUESTS AT LE CHEVAL BLANC (WHICH IS ALSO A HOTEL)
Link to Sunday Lunch at Le Cheval Blanc
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