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The inner courtyard of Cognac Castle (Château de Cognac), Rue du Château, Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, is paved with cobblestones darkened by a black coating. Two round shrubs grow on a patch of lawn in the middle. Around the courtyard stand stone buildings with blackened walls, wooden balconies and a round turret with a pointed slate roof. The stones are black in colour because a fungus has particularly good living conditions on them in the alcoholic air. The walls are black because the so-called cognac fungus (Baudoinia compniacensis) colonises them. It grows wherever alcohol evaporat

The inner courtyard of Cognac Castle (Château de Cognac), Rue du Château, Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, is paved with cobblestones darkened by a black coating. Two round shrubs grow on a patch of lawn in the middle. Around the courtyard stand stone buildings with blackened walls, wooden balconies and a round turret with a pointed slate roof. The stones are black in colour because a fungus has particularly good living conditions on them in the alcoholic air. The walls are black because the so-called cognac fungus (Baudoinia compniacensis) colonises them. It grows wherever alcohol evaporat Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Georg Berg

Image ID:

3BKMPD7

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140.1 MB (8.3 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

8567 x 5714 px | 72.5 x 48.4 cm | 28.6 x 19 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

7 June 2025

Location:

Rue du Château, Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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