Beautiful Beaune

3-Jul-2013 • Beaune France

In Beaune, we visited one museum I shall always remember. Hospices de Beaune, Hotel Dieu was one museum different from all others.

A partial view of the roof of the hospices with one of its spired towers

The courtyard and unique roof of the Hospices de Beaune, Hotel Dieu

Marc in the courtyard with a partial view of the colored roof

A well in the courtyard

A scene at La Salle Saint Louis

The Polyptych about the Last Judgement by the entrance of La Salle Saint Louis

An altar high up and almost close to the ceiling inside the Salle De Pouvres or Hall of the Poor

Inside the very dramatic and Salles de Pouvres or Hall of the Poor where the sick and indigent convalesced inside the hospices

One of the beds dedicated to the poor and the sick inside the Salle de Pouvres or Hall of the Poor

A religious icon high up on a wall looking after the sick and dying

Inside the Salle de Pouvres or Hall of the Poor

Marc inside the Salle de Pouvres or Hall of the Poor

The altar inside La Salle de Pouvres or the Hall of the Poor

The ceiling right above the altar inside the Salle de Pouvres

La Salle Sainte Anne or St. Anne's Room

La Salle Sainte Anne or Saint Anne's Room

La Salle Sainte Anne or Saint Anne's Room

A small altar inside the hospices

Looking at some exhibits

La Cuisine or the kitchen inside the hospices staged to depict how it really was back in the olden days

Here's a nun cutting meat and getting ready to cook a meal inside the kitchen

Getting some water from the tap inside the kitchen

The unique faucet from where to get water

An armoire used for storing metal plates, pitchers, and the like

The pharmacy

Inside the pharmacy

A small altar inside the hospices

In front of the Hospices de Beaune

In Beaune

The 14th century bellfry in Place Monge