After Semur en Auxois we visited another fortified settlement, this time the pretty little village of Noyers sur Serein. Something we noticed in particular is that the old 15th and 16th century half timbered houses are quite the opposite of the ones in Alsace, these are plain with coloured timber whereas the houses in Alsace we all sorts of colours with black or non painted timber.
There is something quite ‘reassuring’ about French medieval villages I think……. a kind of good old fashioned ‘what you see is what you get’…..
The stone ramparts and fortified battlements enclose much of the village…...
and over the centuries houses have been added and built ‘into’ the walls….
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