Beaume

After leaving Lyon, on our way to Paris we stopped in the beautiful town of Beaume.  Beaume is known for the hospice there that was used to take care of the poor.  The hospice operated until the for several hundred years and is now beautiful representation of life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  The hospice stopped taking care of people in the middle of the twenth century.  The sisters, who took care of the patients lived there and some that are well into their late eighties and nineties are still living there.

Pictured are the beautiful roof tiles of the hospice, the display of the hospice living contitions with models, the hospice pharmacy, a city square in Beaume and a street garden.