Notre Dame de la Garde, Marseille: The Good Mother
The ornate gold mosaic is typical of (Neo) Byzantine architecture, which was popular during the mid-late 19th century; cf London's Westminster cathedral.
Notre Dame de la Garde (Our Lady of the Keeper) dominates the city's skyline and…
Fun-paqued cooking from the Middle Ages
The Échaudé takes its name from the French and means, literally, "scalded". Hurled briefly into boiling water before being thrown into a hot oven, this Easter speciality (hence the awful pun) hails from the Middle Ages, in whose times…