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Cathedrale de Sainte-Cecile d’Albi, France.
Albi Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Cecilia , is the most important religious building in Albi, southern France, and the seat of the Archbishop of Albi. First built as a fortress begun in 1287 and under construction for 200 years, it is claimed to be the largest brick building in the world.The present cathedral was […]
Fort Carre, France.
Fort Carre is a 16th-century fort on the outskirts of Antibes, France. The fort was built by architect Henri de Mandon. Reworked by Vauban at the end of the 17th century, the fort was never captured by enemies. Fort Carre of Antibes played an important role in the town’s defences in 1860, the year when […]
Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France.
Aiguille du Midi is the highest point in Europe.The Aiguille du Midi lift was first thought of by two Swiss engineers in 1905. Their plan was to link the hamlet of Les Pelerins with the summit of l’Aiguille du Midi. The project met technical problems and was abandoned. Four years later a French company, Funicular […]
Saint Cirq Lapopie, France.
St-Cirq-Lapopie is 20km east of Cahors in the Lot region of France.St Cirq Lapopie, in its stunning position perched over the Lot River, would be generally considered as one of the most beautiful villages of France’. It is in the ‘Parc naturel régional des Causses du Quercy‘.At the top of a cliff 80 metres above […]
Najac, France.
Najac is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.Najac is a picturesque village set along a ridge above a bend in the Aveyron River. In the earlier part of the last century the village had around 2000 people but it suffered marked population decline as workers migrated to towns and cities. Several films […]
Mont Saint-Michel, France.
Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometre (just over half a mile) off the country’s north-western coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The population of the island is 44, as of 2009. The island has held strategic fortifications since […]
The Belfry of Calais, France.
Calais is a town and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department’s capital is its third-largest city of Arras. The population of the metropolitan area at the 1999 census was 125,584. Calais overlooks […]
Marseille, France.
Marseille, known in antiquity as Massilia or Massalia ,is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of 240.62 km2 (93 sq mi). The urban area and metropolitan area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of around 1.6 […]
