Today I followed in some of Van Gogh's footsteps. I walked north along the Rhone River to the Trinquetaille Bridge. Just below the southeast staircase up to the bridge is an easel featuring one of Van Gogh's paintings: L'Escalier du Pont de Trinquetaille, painted in October 1888. The area looks quite similar today, but the tiny tree has grown huge.
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| The bridge as seen from the Triquetaille side |
After crossing the Rhone, I walked north to what remains of the lion bridge, the Pont des Lions, the old railway bridge that was bombed by Allies in August 1944 to stop German shipping.
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| The west lions |
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| Looking across the river to the east side of the Pont des Lions |
And I took photos across the river that show a lot of stone buildings, varying in age from the 1st century AD, through the Middle Ages, and into the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Round arches of the Roman arena in the back and
buttress wall supports of an old church |
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| More buttress wall supports |
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