chroniques d'une fraise » architecture http://perso.fraise.net an Oregonian on the French Riviera Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:21:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nice’s Russian church http://perso.fraise.net/permalink/2009/06/583/ http://perso.fraise.net/permalink/2009/06/583/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:10:49 +0000 fraise http://perso.fraise.net/?p=583 Eglise Russe (8)
As I mentioned yesterday, I walked to the Russian Orthodox church not far from my place this morning to take some photographs. It was a beautiful day; the church was lovely. You can see all the photos I took of it here. I arrived just before 10am and had a wonderful surprise: the bells started ringing. But they didn’t just ring the time — they played an incredible piece of music that lasted for several minutes! I highly recommend visiting on a Sunday at 10am if you enjoy music, because it was among the most amazing experiences I’ve had. I took a mobile phone video of part of it, but it’s much less impressive than in reality. Do note, however, that you won’t be able to go inside the church on a Sunday morning since they have their services then.

On my way from the church to Nice’s port, I passed our famous hotel, the Negresco, and snapped this picture of it against one of our gorgeous deep blue skies:

Negresco

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