Vouvray is a town on the Loire just outside of Tours. It's well known for its wine, sparkling and still, made exclusively from chenin grapes. Vouvray, about 45 kilometers from Saint-Aignan, is where we rented a vacation house in October 2000. We rented that house again in 2001 for a second trip. We really liked the region and the following year we bought our own house near Saint-Aignan.
Bell tower, Vouvray, scanned color slide, October 2000.
This is the bell tower of Vouvray's church, Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste. The tower is built of stone, of course, topped with a slate-tiled copula and what looks to me like a bronze or copper lantern (or maybe it's just painted). You may be able to make out the bell inside the lantern in this photo.
Odd question: are these churches still used for worship, or are they museums / other things now?
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