The City of Lyon shows the logical and classical dedication to rivers known through the ages throughout the world. And one may walk right up to the point which is the actual confluence of the two rivers that flow through this city — the Rhône and the Saône Rivers.
The Rhône rises in the Alps, and is a major body of water in France and Switzerland. Tributary to the Rhǒne is the Saône, in eastern France. The confluence of the two is at this point — home to these swans.
Though the Rhône–Saône corridor is underlain by sediments laid down during the Paleogene and Neogene periods, much of its present surface is formed by debris deposited by valley glaciers that extended from the Alps during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago). These sediments were instrumental in cutting deep channels through the edge of the crystalline Massif Central…
Source: Britannica
Swan symbolism:
grace
elegance
lifelong fidelity
transformation
purity
In the opera Lohengrin (Richard Wagner), purity, transformation, divine guidance, mysticism
to be continued…
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