Capital with musicians, Abbatiale Sainte-Foy

Carved capital of King David and his musicians, with musicians playing a stringed instrument with a bow and a serpent, a leather trumpet with reptile's head, and a contortionist in the middle, and row of birds in circles above, in the Abbatiale Sainte-Foy de Conques or Abbey-church of Saint-Foy, Conques, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees, France, a Romanesque abbey church begun 1050 under abbot Odolric to house the remains of St Foy, a 4th century female martyr. The church is on the pilgrimage route to Santiago da Compostela, and is listed as a historic monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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