Angoulême: The Capital of Comics, Its Painted Walls and the Romanesque Cathedral

Required Activities

• At the Musée de la bande dessinée in the Chais Magelis, work through the Trésors des collections show and pick the two original pages you would take home from the 25,000 the Cité holds

• Find La Fille des Remparts on the boulevard Pasteur behind the covered market and work out where Max Cabanes's painted 120 m2 of rampart stops and the real rampart of Angoulême starts, then track down at least two more painted walls in the centre

• On the west front of Saint-Pierre, consecrated in 1128, find Christ in Glory in his mandorla with the four evangelist symbols at the very top, then drop your eye to the carved frieze of hunting and battle scenes running the width of the front

• Walk the ramparts round the plateau for the view over the Charente, and on the way find the 2.5 m bronze Corto Maltese of 2008 and Frank Margerin's Lucien, put up in 2020

• Inside the cathedral, find the tomb of Jean d'Orléans, the Bon Comte, at the angle where the choir steps meet those of the south transept