Catégorie tourisme
John Knox, the Hall of Heroes and the Yellowlees
Within The National Wallace Monument near Stirling in Scotland, I really didn’t expect him to be present. But there he was, amidst the white marble portraits of Sir Walter Scott, of young Robert Burns, of Livingstone and many other famous Scotsmen : John Knox, the 16th century reformer, pamphletist and gifted orator. A protestant minister of […]
La « Vieille Alliance » perdure
Depuis le 13e siècle, la France et l’Écosse entretiennent des liens privilégiés. Mais c’est surtout au 15ème et 16ème siècles que les deux pays ont partagé une grande partie de leur histoire. Une princesse écossaise, Marguerite Stuart, est devenue dauphine de France en épousant Louis XI, et des princesses françaises sont devenues reines d’Écosse, comme […]
1314-2014 : News of the Battle of Bannockburn
In early summer of the year 1314, by a small river named Bannock Burn in Scotland, took place one of the most famous battles in European history. The battle of Bannockburn was fought on june 23th and june 24th between the armies of king Edward II of England (1284-1327) and king Robert the Bruce of Scotland […]
Scottish effigies in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey in Paris
Since the end of the 13th century, the realms of France and Scotland were officially bound by mutual military aid contracts that laid the foundations of the famous Auld Alliance. Many Scotsmen came to France to make war as archers and soldiers in the service of the French kings, or to make business in the cities of […]
Unicorn hunt at Stirling castle
Stirling castle in Scotland has just received an all new and bright coloured tapestry, the sixth out of a series of medieval inspired hangings already decorating its Renaissance palace. These modern replicas are woven by West Dean Tapestry in a studio at Stirling castle and in the south of England and depict the « The Hunt […]
Renaissance living comfort
When nobility and royalty were travelling from palace to palace, tapestries, carpets and wooden furniture were taken along to furnish the various rooms. But how were these interiors made comfortable, and how their inhabitants were sheltered from the summer heat or winter cold ? Tapestries have been used not only as decoration and signs of […]
La Réformation écossaise version théâtre : « Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis »
Si vous êtes en Écosse ce week-end, ne ratez pas l’occasion de voir – pour la première fois dans son intégralité depuis 1554 – la pièce du poète écossais David Lyndsay, « A Satire of the Three Estates« . – vendredi 7 juin, samedi 8 juin et dimanche 9 juin à Linlithgow Palace Peel Il y aura […]
Sur les traces de Marie de Lorraine
En France, on cherche en vain les traces de Marie de Lorraine, la deuxième reine d’Écosse d’origine française du XVIe siècle. Certains endroits qu’elle a connu existent toujours, comme la salle des Caryatides au Louvre, achevé vers 1550, l’année de sa visite en France. D’autres ont intégralement disparu, comme le château familial des Guise à […]
Marie de Guise-Lorraine 1515-2025 