Traveling in France #5: Amiens (Part 2 of 2)

[Today is a milestone--the halfway point of our year in Paris.  We arrived 6 months ago on January 28.  We are greatly enjoying Year 4.  Perhaps that is why time is flying by.  Thanks for sharing the adventure with us.]    

Our amble in Amiens continues.

We overnighted in Amiens for two reasons.  Sleeping in an air-conditioned hotel room during the heatwave in France made sense to us.  More importantly, we wanted to the see the nightly light show projected on the cathedral's facade.  The light show uses "projection mapping" to display colorful, moving images on the facade  The light show was beautiful.    

Below are some photos with a couple of videos to give you a sense of what the show is like.

Here is the cathedral in daylight.

 Here is the cathedral at night.

The image above depicts the interior of the cathedral.

Click on the videos below to see the light show in action.

After the light show ended, the facade was illuminated to appear as it might have appeared centuries ago.  During our travels, we have learned that sculptures and church facades were often painted.  The cathedral in Amiens, like cathedrals in Paris and elsewhere in Europe, was colorfully painted centuries ago but the paint has long since weathered, faded and disappeared.  Fortunately, the light show depicts how the cathedral might have looked.  Check it out.  

Seeing the colorful cathedral was amazing.  

Thanks for visiting Amiens with us.  

P.S.  In case you want to see more of the light show on YouTube, you can click here and here.   A similar light show was created for Notre-Dame-de-Paris (click here).