This is another amazing door from our trip to Périgueux, just a few steps further along Rue Tranquille. I have no idea of the history of this door or the building behind it but it has the same feeling of incredible age and history as my previous example. Perhaps a checkered history in this case as it conjures up all kinds of dramatic images of imprisonment and medieval castles behind the solid oak, iron bars and time-worn stud work.
I’ve also included a view of the narrow street leading back up to the main town. Thanks as always to Norm for hosting this excellent Thursday Doors challenge.
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View from a French Hillside 
Fantastic finds!! I love the rugged beauty of these ancient relics. Gorgeous!!
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Many thanks indeed Julie! So glad you like them, they have such stories to tell I’m sure!
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Great set! Looks very ancient.
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Cheers Herbert! I think it is, the old town dates from Middle Ages and even Roman times!
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Heavenly doors and bolts – running out of adjectives when it comes to your photographs!
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Sarah you are indescribably kind! 🙂
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I know. 😀
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That is a very ominous looking door. I don’t think I’d want to be the poor soul stuck on the other side of it.
Great shots Jane 🙂
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I can imagine a giant medieval knight bursting out of it at any moment whirling swords and flails – or perhaps it might be Darth Vedar !! 🙂
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The textures, the iron work, the history. Wonderful, Jane.
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Thanks very much Jane! 🙂
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Very beautiful medieval gate !! I love it
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Thankyou Pat!
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Amazingly timely, Jane, as just last night I was spending an inordinate amount of time gazing at our wine cellar door – which is nearly the spitting image of your photo – and telling it how much I adored it. Or adoored it? 😛
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Haha ! Interesting that you have to have bars on it Shelley! We have a typical English cellar – there’s nothing in it! Anything we have worth drinking never makes it down there but we’re about to start home brewing and cider so that may all change soon!
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What a great door. The pictures make me shudder just a bit, but the door is so cool.
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Hi Dan, it is a bit threatening isn’t it! No idea of original use but very old obviously and loads of character!
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Wonderful door! Looks very medieval!
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Thankyou tgeriatrix, I think it could easily be a few centuries old!
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Again Jane I love your story telling with the different perspectives of the door from up close to the alley way. It makes me feel like I am there. I really like the texture of that door with the metal grill. Good spotting 🙂
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Thanks Kaz! The street was really quite narrow and of course typically French!
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beautiful shots, I love the details
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Many thanks indeed julioc!
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Muchas gracias!
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