Beautiful French Houses in Provins
We found a sign which points to the tourist information center here in the town of Provins in France. It isn’t exactly a very well known place and it shows. When we got out of the train, it seems that there were only two groups of tourists here. Ours and the American couple we happened to run into. The map isn’t very clear but it seems that the tourist information center is to the west of the map. We are not sure how big the town is and we down know how far we needed to walk to get there. I think the town’s tourism authorities would have done better had they put an information center near the train station since this is where more people would be coming from.
Ancestral Home of Jules Verne in Provins
Anyway, we started to enter the town and it seems to be a bit on the modern side. Yes, I probably had high expectations that this place would be really “medieval”. The houses here were very quaint and charming. It was almost like those houses you would see in books. I would love to have these kinds of houses. If I could live here I think it would be a nice and peaceful place. I was under the impression that the medieval town itself would not have any cars or at least bar cars from entering but this was not the case. There were cars parks along the streets and it seemed to be owned by the residents. The houses had that familiar thick vertical line design I have come to associate with French architecture. There was even a house which is related to the science fiction writer Jules Verne, it seems that this was his ancestral home. I didn’t even know Jules Verne was French!
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