A day trip to the nearby region…Lorraine.
We arrived to Nancy, the historical capital of Lorraine,
in a misty morning, which tastes already the bitter sweet atmosphere of deep autumn.
What a change – we thought- from the sunny and bright Strasbourg.
The rest will prove that we were wrong in being so hesitating…
Nancy is totally different from Alsatian towns,
even though it’s relatively very close to Alsace.
The colours immediately marked the difference, nothing in pastel colour, fairy tale like.
On the opposite the main features are sober light creamy beige and a bright blue.
Walking to the centre we discovered one of the most beautiful squares of France.
Place Stanislas, known colloquially as the place Stan'.
The square was a major project in urban planning imagined by Stanisław Leszczyński,
Duke of Lorraine and former King of Poland,
as a way to link the medieval old town of Nancy and the new town built under Charles III in the 17th century.

The morning mist gives definitely a little unreal look to the square…
Maybe it even increases its charm.