Soreze, as Promised

Our final destination was the small village of Soreze.  It is on a site dating from the 9th century, and contains many old buildings.  Unlike many villages, the streets in the older part have not been widened to accommodate automobiles, and thus walking through the village you can imagine that it looked more or less the same 200 or 300 years ago.





Soreze was the site of an abbey which was destroyed in the 15th century during the terrible Wars of Religion.  All that is left of the original today is the bell tower:



Unfortunately, we missed the most interesting part of the village, which is on a nearby hill: the ruins of the original village, dating from the 8th century.  We may return to see that.