Pyrenees Travel Poster: Cirque de Gavarnie by F. Hugo d’Alési, 1890 deauville Hollister (approaching route)

Hollister (approaching route)

was once the capital of the Kingdom of Leinster

Landmarks like Bodiam Castle and Arundel Castle are elegantly portrayed

and Poitou-Charentes

Pyrenees Travel Poster: Cirque de Gavarnie by F. Hugo d’Alési, 1890 deauville Hollister (approaching route)Les Pyrnes cirque de Gavarnie by F. Hugo dAlsi (Frdric Alexianu), published in 1890, captures the romance of turnofthecentury travel at the very moment railways opened the high country to curious wanderers. Set in the heart of the French Pyrenees, the scene looks toward the famed natural amphitheatre of Gavarnie in the HautesPyrnes of southwestern Francea place of soaring limestone walls, tumbling waters, and meadows where pastoral life brushes up