Cathédrale d'Images

Cathédrale d'Images Review

Today Les Baux offers two world-famous faces to the world: its beautifully preserved medieval village and the ghostly ruins of its fortress, once referred to as the ville morte (dead town). In the village, lovely 12th-century stone houses, even their window frames still intact, shelter the shops, cafés, and galleries that line the steep cobbled streets. At the edge of the village is a cliff that offers up a stunning view over the Val d'Enfer (Hell's Valley), said to have inspired Dante's Inferno. Farther along is the Cathédrale d'Images. The milieu is a vast old bauxite quarry, with 66-foot-high stone walls, which makes a dramatic setting for the thousands of images projected onto its walls.