Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Baillargues

The outer walls of "Saint-Antoine-de-la-Cadoule" are covered with more than 100 graffitis. Most of them show horseshoes in all shapes and sizes. The chapel was part of a larger complex, that was built exactly at the "Via Tolosana" (now N113). It may have been used as a "hopital". Probably pilgrims have stayed here. Some pilgrims may have carved these horseshoes into the walls, to ensure a special blessing from St. Antoine. In Chablis pilgrims nailed horseshoes onto the door of the church, here they carved them into the wall. Here is a photo of that door in Chablis: www.flickr.com/photos/martin-m-miles/3986725207/

A look inside "Saint-Antoine-de-la-Cadoule" to the apse. As the chapel is used as a workshop and garage since decades, it is filled with parts and tools. The arch to the left corresponds to the main arch to the apse. A same arch is on the right. The wall on the right was demolished, to install the garage- door. A statue of St. Antoine is still in the small window in the back.

The apsis of "Saint-Antoine-de-la-Cadoule" - seen over the blue, electric fence. The lombard band under the roof is nearly complete - and the halfcolumns have small floral capitals.

The chappel "Saint-Antoine-de-la-Cadoule" is - a garage since decades and part of a farm. We learned from the owners, that the 12th century-chappel once belonged to a Knights Templar. Note the nice lombard band under the roof. The wooden door, seen behind the 2CV, is only three generations old.

The "Course Camarguaises", we could see in the arena of Baillagues, has nothing to do with Spanish-style bullfighting. This is a bloodless spectacle. The "raseteur" has to snatch a rosette from the head and small bands from the horns of the bull. The "raseteurs" have to be very fast and pretty smart.

Stayed in Baillargues and learned that not only Pamplona in Spain has a "Running of the Bulls". Baillargues has that too - and many other villages in the Languedoc. When the bulls run, the inner part of the village is secured by iron grills. When I took that photo, the gates were still open - and no bulls around.