Posted by
Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 19 January 2008 in Architecture.

I hadn't planned on showing this photo but Amy wanted to see a closer view of the church so here we are! :

Photographed in the village of Hauteluce, high up in the French Alps, this is the baroque church of Saint Jacques d'Assyrie.

Dating from 1558, It is a classified historical building.

From the little I've seen, the style seems typical of the Savoie region and beautiful to look at it is too. Our appartment was just next door - if you leaned out of the bedroom window as far as you could it was almost possible to touch the church tower:-)

Yes.... I know the road is filthy but towns up in the snow zone can look a bit like this in the winter once standing snow has been cleared from the roads...after all there's no rain is there to keep things clean!

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Just a bit of fun, but this is one of my favourite photos with my new DSLR. I've submitted it for publication in JPG magazine. You can vote for it's inclusion here: JPG Magazine

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