Yesterday, when I saw the post of @leaky20 showcasing 13 unique doors I remembered one city in France and its doors. It was a clear reminder that I should find the photos of the doors I made there while we strolled through the historic centre and searched for dinner.
Narbonne has a huge, beautiful but ancient cathedral (you can take a look here if interested to see it). There you can find also the Palace of the Archbishops, the Roman Granary Museum, the replica of the Capitoline Wolf, cobblestone streets, old buildings and of course, doors. Many of them.
I don't know why they caught my attention and I started to take pictures of them. They were not special; they were not lavishly decorated, nor the facades of the buildings seemed very important. Well, some of them yes, but it was mainly in those smaller side streets where I made this collection of photos of doors.
The majority of them are double wooden doors, but also simple ones, like this yellow entrance to the house of friends. Is it the right translation from la maison des potes?
I also loved this thin white door, probably the entrance of a boutique. There was a shop window, with women's dresses and shoes.
When I was sorting out the photos this morning, between two painkillers and sleeping, I saw a bit annoying pattern. Why were most of the doors I took a picture of on sloping streets? 😩
Straight lines, symmetry... I could forget about it. Though I tried my best to align them.
Maybe I could do just one category of this collection - sloping street doors? 😂
You see, like this one.
Hmm... no. They will be categorized by their colour. So, two main categories - blue and brown. Oh, and one green door. Actually, there are two and a half doors in this narrow facade. Additional gem - an empty bottle of beer.
Brown doors
We see that the facades of some of these buildings are decorated. Did you notice the musical instruments above one door? That was one of my favourites. And the building of the first wide wooden door must be very old, the decoration in the centre was unfortunately damaged or hidden on purpose. Some very simple examples and facades also found their place in this collection.
Blue doors
The blue ones won in number!
From this section, my favourite door is the penultimate one. It seems that it was repaired, with wood the owners (or the person who fixed it) had, without taking care a lot about the appearance. At least it was later painted with the same colour. It is a survivor!
All the doors lead somewhere... They are entrances to homes, buildings of other purposes, shops, churches, schools... but what about doors that lead nowhere? What if they are bricked up?
I don't know if they still count as doors, but they are here to make part of this little collection of Narbonne's doors. In sloping streets! 😉
The post which inspired me, and where you can see really nice doors can be seen here.
