Mont-Saint-Michel     - Monuments | France -
[08/05/2006]

Place : Mont-Saint-Michel (50).

Description : Classified in the world inheritance of UNESCO. The village, established on the mount in 709, developed with the shade of its medieval abbey. In the north of the Saint-Pierre church, the double building called the Wonder is a Gothic architecture wonderfull works. It is built on three levels on a rock side . Currently a high tourist place in France.

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Capitole place      - Monuments | France -
[08/05/2006]

Place : Toulouse (31).

Description : Shortly after the triumphal visit of Charles Quint, in 1536, the Pope Paul III charges Michel Ange with arranging Capitole. It is a question to give again a suitable aspect in Rome which had been ransacked 9 years earlier per Charles Quint itself.
Michel Ange carries out this monumental place the purpose of which was principal to express a rupture with old Rome of the Emperors and an opening on the new Rome : that of the Popes.

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Eiffel tower      - Monuments | France -
[04/05/2006]

Place : Paris (75). Description : The Eiffel Tower is a puddled iron tower built by Gustave Eiffel and his collaborators for the World Fair of 1889. Located at the end of Champs-de-Mars, in edge of the Seine, this Parisian monument, symbol of France and its capital is the most visited sites in France.

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Esplanade of Invalides      - Monuments | France -
[04/05/2006]

Place : Paris (75).

Description : It is at the beginning of the 17th century, that Robert de Cotte traced the first lines of this vast esplanade bordered of elms.
It was built definitively, at the time of the World Fair of 1899. It remained unchanged until our days.

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Tuileries garden      - Monuments | France -
[04/05/2006]

Place : Paris (75).

Description : The Tileries garden is the oldest and the vastest garden of Paris, laid out over a length of 3000 feet (920 m) and a width of 1060 feet (325 m), until the place of the Harmony. Started with Catherine de Médicis, it marks the birth, in the city, of the fashionable public walk.

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Luxembourg garden      - Monuments | France -
[04/05/2006]

Place : Quartier latin, Paris (75).

Description : The Luxembourg garden is a whole of various styles gardens , located in the VIe district of Paris, created in 1612 under the Marie de Médicis's reign.
Predilection appointments of Parisian, student or walkers, it attract visitors of the whole world.

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