On more stop on the architectural pilgrimage before getting back to Marseille: Chapelle Ronchamp, on the Notre-dame-du-haut hill, has become an icon of Le Corbuisier’s design, and experimenting the play with light inside the church is really a mystic experience.
The two altars outside the chapel allow the thousands of pilgrims who converge to ronchamp in August and september to follow the mass
Renzo Piano designed the troglodyte cloister on the ground. The small chapel, his response to Le Corbusier’s work above, is also illuminating
La maison du pèlerin, built just before the Ronchamp Chapel and recently restored.
La Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, je l’adore ! je la connais depuis que je suis toute petite, eh oui nous avons le même age ……