Reflets de la Seine , Marnay

A walk along the Seine in Marnay Sur Seine near Le Prieuré from la Maison Verte & La Jardin Botanique. The Abbey of Saint-Denis, the Roman church built in the XII by the monks of is half-ruined at the end of the wars of religion. In the seventeenth century, the reconstruction of the vaults and the building of the tower gave it its present appearance. Originally, the church was decorated with paintings that were whitewashed in the eighteenth century, according to the religious instruction of the time. Le Prieuré has a wooden children's playground was built by a NZer, Sam who also honed some of the beams for Notre Dames restoration.Read more