Certainly the visit to Vienna this summer by a journalist from the British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph” impressed him a lot.
At least according to the title of his article: “Vienne, the most beautiful city in France that no one has ever heard of”! An article translated into French and proposed on an even larger scale in the magazine “Courrier International” which takes up the articles of the international press that seem to her to be the most relevant.
“Entering Place Charles-de-Gaulle (formerly Place du Palais) on a beautiful sunny day at lunchtime is like stepping back in time. Of course, not as if you were descended from a DeLorean or in a setting worthy of an HG Wells novel: no trace here of smoking tires or visions of the future. No, we are on the road to ancient Rome, in all its architectural splendor and majesty ”, begins his laudatory article for the city.
It then returns its place to the Temple of Augustus and Livia, usually eclipsed by the “Maison Carrée” of Nîmes.
Describing the Temple of Augustus and Livia, he writes: “We are faced with a masterpiece of ancient art with its sixteen Corinthian columns and perfect symmetry, a marvel of the first century which, due to its shape and state of conservation , is matched by French land only by the Maison Carrée of Nîmes, designed in an almost identical way.
Incidentally, the journalist promotes some excellent Viennese restaurants: “At this stage, a clarification is a must:“ Vienne is actually just a provincial town of 30,000 inhabitants, eclipsed by nearby Lyon, which is 35 kilometers upstream. But visit it during the warmer months, when diners flock inside or on the terrace of the small restaurants on rue du Musée and rue de la Table-Ronde – such as Muse, serving spiced lamb shoulders, or at the L ‘restaurant. Estancot, which specializes in “criques” (fried grated potato pancakes, typical of the Rhône region), garnished with prawns, mushrooms and many other side dishes … “
Definitely a good tourist spot for Vienna in this magazine with a circulation of 170,000 copies!
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