I have decided to post more about the city of Lyon and the surroundings. There is so many things to be seen, so many places to visit!
It's not the first time I'm living here (I lived here six years ago, came back a plenty for concerts, then worked again here last year, and definitely moved this year), but I never shared too much about it, whereas it is a really inspiring environnement.
So, this is a beautiful and unusual place to visit: a convent built by one of our most famous french architect, Le Corbusier.

Built in 1953, for the Dominicans, it is still really impressive.





Sadly the church was still in works of renovation, when we visited it, last week, but it made me the same austere but spiritualistic impression than the chapel in Fiminy: such a progression in primarily colour, faced to ground, while the concrete walls, really high, tend toward God. Impressive.






It is still a Convent, so visit are restricted to each sunday, at 15:00. A pleasant father from the community let us (a few group of ten persons) have a walk inside those walls. The Convent is in Eveux, a little village near L'Arbresle, 30 km from Lyon.
It's not the first time I'm living here (I lived here six years ago, came back a plenty for concerts, then worked again here last year, and definitely moved this year), but I never shared too much about it, whereas it is a really inspiring environnement.
So, this is a beautiful and unusual place to visit: a convent built by one of our most famous french architect, Le Corbusier.

Built in 1953, for the Dominicans, it is still really impressive.





Sadly the church was still in works of renovation, when we visited it, last week, but it made me the same austere but spiritualistic impression than the chapel in Fiminy: such a progression in primarily colour, faced to ground, while the concrete walls, really high, tend toward God. Impressive.






It is still a Convent, so visit are restricted to each sunday, at 15:00. A pleasant father from the community let us (a few group of ten persons) have a walk inside those walls. The Convent is in Eveux, a little village near L'Arbresle, 30 km from Lyon.
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