{"id":11771,"date":"2017-05-24T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11771"},"modified":"2017-06-14T18:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T22:18:42","slug":"vienne-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11771","title":{"rendered":"Vienne, France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">May 24, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vienne is the Gallo-Roman city located about six miles south of Chasse-sur Rhone. \u00a0It&#8217;s a wonderful small city located on the Rhone river, full of Roman ruins and artifacts of historical interest. During the week, I visited Vienne several times with Claudine and Astrig.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11772\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1260.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11773\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We climbed up <em>le Mont Pipe<\/em>t to see the fantastic views of Vienne and to look down at the Roman amphitheater below. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11774\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0459.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11778\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the summit of the hill is the lovely<em>\u00a0Chapelle de Notre-Dame de Pipet<\/em> and its adjoining tower with a large statue of the Virgin Mary. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11775\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11776\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recently, the Armenian community of Vienne installed a <em>khachchar, <\/em>which means a &#8216;cross of stone,&#8217;\u00a0in front of the tower. \u00a0This\u00a0is an intricately carved stone memorial symbolizing the spirit of the Armenian people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0481.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11777\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 24, 2017 Vienne is the Gallo-Roman city located about six miles south of Chasse-sur Rhone. \u00a0It&#8217;s a wonderful small city located on the Rhone river, full of Roman ruins and artifacts of historical interest. During the week, I visited Vienne several times with Claudine and Astrig. We climbed up le Mont Pipet to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11821,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771\/revisions\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}