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The Journeys around
of Rennes-Le-Château
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 JI could not avoid to go there, even though there now is not" more anything" to see there. Taking my car I surrendered on the road that drives toward Arch. Fear to miss the place I rolled mildly. I left the road of Rennes-Les-Bains on my right and I continued toward the village of Serres.
Crossing it in not failing to look at its castle, I maintained my cape to moderate pace. In a big curve, I left on my left the hamlet of the Pontils. After 200 meters about, I noticed on quoted it right a nipple covered with trees. I had arrived. |
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I was instead says" The tomb of the Pontils ". On this Golgotha, until 1979 stood up an alike tomb strangely to the one represented in the work of Nicolas Poussin" The Shepherds of Arcadie". |
Astonishing position! Islet of stone in the chaos natural of the land. A stream partially dried, the Rialsesse, isolate it of the road created by the man. The erosion of soil, made by the stream, demonstrates the power that it can reach at the time of its rises in the water level as sudden as sudden.. |
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I look at the Golgotha of the Pontilses, and I cannot stop from being disturbed by the likeness of the Nicolas Poussin picture. Certainly the trees surrounding the place, where only the pedestal of the tomb remained visible, are bushier and bigger, but the picture is there! Game of the luck and the nature or factual elements in a magic and astonishing history ? |
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My look carries itself far in the and I see the hillock of Blanchefort that stands far away. Among mists I recognize the shapes of a hill that attract me since numerous years, the hill of Rennes-Le-Chateau ! |
I remain there without moving! Astonished of what I see. Uneasy because the accurateness is not present, only some incontestable likeness are there! What to think? A short thrill in my back, a thought comes to me, a picture presents itself to my eyes, a swirling picture, the one of a brown bear made of power and symbol. I am there, I go in the country of the bear, my mind goes circa Ursus, I am in Arcadia…
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