u/dty6 u/sleepydude

Yes, I did see the above post. I read "The DaVinci Code" and was able to visit some of the places mentioned in it. I saw the "Virgin of the Rocks" painting in the Louvre. It's not as bright as photographs would lead you to believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks

I also got to see Saint-Sulpice, too, which was pretty cool. I had to laugh while I was there. They had a poster on the wall, basically disavowing the whole DaVinci Code thing. They were still most happy to accept a donation, however. Kek!

I found the train station mentioned in the book and took some photos of it, too.

At another time, I got to see Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. I was super lucky in that they were doing repair work to the roof at the time. They had scaffolding the entire way around the Chapel and you could go up and see the roof up close and personal. It was sort of a once-in-a-lifetime thing. There's actually a stone beehive up there. The only downside was they were also doing some work inside the chapel, so there was a part of the ceiling that I was unable to view.

To the right of the altar there are stairs that go down to the room that has the diagrams etched into the stone that are mentioned in the book.

It's too bad you guys can't see my photos from all of these places. I took a ton of them. It's been a long time since I read the book, but I may have visited other places that were referenced in it, too. I was all over Paris.

I got to see a lot of Edinburgh, Scotland, too. I saw the coffee shop where J.K. Rowling supposedly wrote Harry Potter and the cemetery nearby where she got some of the names for the characters, like Mrs. McGonagall. Took a tour of the Queen's Holyrood Castle, too. That was pretty cool.