Ruby Tuesday.... Place de la Canourgue

Place de la Canourgue, last week.

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Sur les pavés de la place de la Canourgue, l'une des plus jolies places dans l'Ecusson.

Photo taken on the Place de la Canourgue last Sunday. The weather was nice, as you can see.

Andante Macadam

Montpellier is one of the major "cities of art" in France. Festivals of all kinds take place here all year round: cinema, theater, music, dance. As soon as the temperature reaches 22°C (or maybe earlier) and people can sit at the terraces of the numerous cafés of the city, musicians start singing in the streets. Not in the rain like Gene Kelly as it doesn't often rain in Montpellier. Like trouvères and troubadours rather.

The other day, on the Place de la Canourgue, a cameraman from a Swedish TV channel was filming a group of musicians.

Actually they were street musicians, dancers, mimes, clowns. I watched them perform. I liked what I heard and saw.

Andante Macadam (name of the group) have a website :

http://www.musicanu.com/pages/andantequipe.html

You can even hear them :

http://www.musicanu.com/pages/andanteson.html

The last photo is a view of the Place de la Canourgue. I'd like to change the layout of my messages but I've been unable to do so so far.

Place de la Canourgue

Yesterday I spent some time on the very beautiful "Place de la Canourgue," which is close to the cathedral, the Court of Justice, the Arc de Triomphe, in the most elegant part of the Ecusson. I loved the color of the parasols at the terrace of the "Comptoir de l'Arc" (trendy café). The wind was gently playing with the branches of the trees of the micocouliers (nettle trees, the name is definitely more beautiful in French). I watched them dancing through the parasols.

A few years ago, the mayor had decided to build an underground parking lot under the Place de la Canourgue, and one morning bulldozers came and pulled down the old plane trees that lined the square. But there were riots, upheavals, revolutions (we are good at that!). People were very angry and they eventually managed to have the project cancelled. The mayor had young micocouliers planted (back). The square was a bit disfigured for a few years but now it's beautiful again.

I'd like my photos to appear bigger on the screen when one opens the blog....