Scenes from the town of Amiens....
Amiens is the chief city of Picardy, in the Somme River Valley and is about 100 km from Paris. The town was the scene of The Battle of Amiens which was the opening place of the One Hundred Days Offensive, leading to the armistice which ended World War 1.
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| Gotta love those garage doors! |
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| Yep, I'll have a couple of those on my roof please! |
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The Notre dame d'Amiens Cathedral or The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens is the tallest complete cathedral in France. It contains the largest medieval interior in Western Europe.
It's a very beautiful gothic cathedral with many chapels....
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| We tried but we couldn't get the little door shut! |
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| Local Saints. |
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| Amazing detail - inside the Cathedral. |
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| Can you see the skulls peeking out.... |
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In one of the many chapels within the cathedral hangs an Australian flag which was presented by the A.I.F. in 1920 as a memorial to the Australian soldiers that gave their lives in the Battle of Amiens.
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