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Bell Tower Valbonne Abbey Art Print
by Alexandra Till
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Bell Tower Valbonne Abbey art print by Alexandra Till. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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© Christine Till
Excavations carried out in the hills surrounding Valbonne in the Alpes-Maritimes in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southern France, bear witness to the presence man going back to the first centuries AD in this part of the Côte d’Azur. Roman tiles, fragments of amphorae and dolia and aqueducts that supplied Antibes confirm Roman presence.
In 1199, Guillaume, of the pure Benedictine monastic order of Chalais, made his way to this isolated valley between the Riou Merlet and the Brague rivers where he founded the Abbey of Sainte Marie de Valbonne (or 'Ancien Couvent Chalaisien'), to which a new township was added 320 years later. Set on the bank of the River Brague, in an isolated and wooded valley, the abbey fitted nicely with the Chalaisian rules of solitude and silence in an hermitage structure while being well placed for the monks' activities of sheep farming and forestry, but soon the plague and widespread looting drove the hermits to flee. In the late 13th centu...
About Alexandra Till
My photography covers a wide range of subjects such as fine art, still life, black and white, infrared, portrait, animal, architecture, landscape, national and international travel and corporate (commercial) images. All my photographs and photo objects are available as fine-quality Prints or as immediate downloads from http://www.ct-graphics.com/. Get them as Calendars from redbubble, or digital per email, or on CD / DVD. If you are serious about upscale photography, please contact me for a free consultation. I cover assignments throughout the United States and abroad. I will also be happy to help you if you have a question about a picture, or would like a different format, size, customization, or need custom stock photos. My...
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