Best Western Hotel Victor Hugo

... . This tourist attraction was only famous because of the movie "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", inspired by the novel written by Victor Hugo. Otherwise, the Gothic movement was no longer popular. In this era, people are shifting towards green buildings and ...

... . At the same time, it also has seances, where contacted spirits include people such as Joan of Arc, William Shakespeare and Victor Hugo. Their Holy See temple was quite flashy, but the ceremony we were allowed to witness was quite dull, despite the ...

... of Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism and blended them together - the three major "saints" of Cao Dai are the French writer Victor Hugo, a Chinese Buddhist whose name I can't remember and the Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat Sen! The temple is very ...

... See was a day trip for us. Cao Dai is a new-ish Vietnamese religion that reveres a whole grab bag of people and gods (Victor Hugo???). We saw their main temple and watched a mass. Cu Chi was our stop after lunch. Cu Chi was an important battleground ...

... , which sounds crazy in itself. And then they have three saints that they also worship: a Chinese guy, a Vietnamese guy and Victor Hugo (as in the guy that wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables!). Bizarre. Without wishing to sound ...

... and God", called Caoidaism. Their saints include Vietnamese poet Trang Trinh, Chinese writer, Sun Yat-Set, and French author Victor Hugo, of all people. The temple itself is incredibly colorful and open. We watched a prayer ceremony with the congregation ...