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This Cathedral of the Sea is a fitting example of a peculiar type of architecture which exists also in Provence, a succession of fortress-churches that extend along the Mediterranean from Spain to Italy like the peaks of a mountain chain.
I remember a modern French grave, near La Rochelle; in the centre of the head-cross was a glass case, with a doll dinner-service enclosed, that had been a favourite toy with the poor little mite lying under the cross. So human hearts are the same as centuries roll by and religions alter. The cathedral of Narbonne is very delightful, after a course of castellated fortress-churches of early date.
At Orlat I found a small inn, but they had no travellers' room in it; however some of the family were good enough to turn out, and I was very glad to turn in, and that rather early. Herrmannstadt Saxon immigrants Museum Places of interest in the neighbourhood The fortress-churches Heltau The Rothen Thurm Pass Turkish incursions.
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