Saturday 18th July Notre Dame du Haut von Ronchamp
All in car together for the drive to Ronchamp to visit the church on the hilltop designed by Le Courbousier and built on the site of previous churches dating back to about 11 century -most recent previous church had been shelled in WW11. This huge white concrete church was breathtaking in its modern1950’simplicity and was entirely controversial because the good burghers of Ronchamp could not believe an agnostic could build a Maire church..but build he did and it is now in every Swiss child’s school book and is hailed the world over. Lyndsay was really moved by the serenity of the building and said God was really there!! Helen had a less emotional response but impressed never the less.
Then dropped R&S at Basel Banhof and did shopping there for dinner before heading back to Zurich –all arrived back in Frey Strasse at same time.
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