Our Lady of the Assumption Church — Attraction in Pontoise

Super nice church. It has git a old classical touch to it and not yet moder ised, which is absolutely the way it should be, old and classical. The area us not very far from the house of the world famous painter Vincent van gough, hence this can be a full one day trip to cover the famous giverny Gardens of Claude monet as well the one in augers for Vincent van gough artistic work. Not too far from centre of paris and you can manage a road trip within one day. The place may not have a lot of eating options around however you will find occasional food carts around So...

There is a certain attempt to block the scenes Van Gogh painted. This local government has put non-sense blocking panels in front of the church and in front of the "roots". There are many empty facades around the church, you can put this irrelevant painting on any of them, but no. They put it on the very exact angle the artist painted the church. This mayor should stop her sick Van Gogh hatred. You are ruining the experience of many art lovers travelling for hours just to see this village...

This is the church that Van Gogh painted and though it’s small, it’s quite charming inside also. We stayed in this town for some time and the church holds concerts during the holidays and we actually saw a young man working for the church during one of the events and he spoke very good English. We always go in to say a...