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Extract from the Beauvais Travel Guides:
As you head south from Amiens towards Paris, the countryside becomes broad and flat - agricultural, though not rustic.
BEAUVAIS
, 60km south of Amiens, seems to fit into this landscape. Rebuilt, like Amiens, after the last world war, it's a drab, neutral place redeemed only by its radiating Gothic cathedral, the
Cathdrale St-Pierre
, which rises above the town, its roof, unadorned by tower or spire, seeming squat for all its height. It is a building that perhaps more than any other in northern France demonstrates the religious materialism of the Middle Ages - its main intention to be taller and larger than its rivals....
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