5. Lac de Sainte-CroixSainte Croix Du Verdon The Lake of Sainte-Croix is a man-made lake that was formed by the construction, between 1971 and 1974 of a reinforced-concrete arch dam by the name of Dam of Sainte-Croix. The reservoir holds a maximum of 761 million cubic metres of water. The dam, which generates 142 million kWh of electricity per year, is 94 metres high, 7.5 metres thick at its base and 3 metres thick at its crest. The village that can be seen adjacent to the lake, however, is not the eponymous village of Sainte-Croix-de-Verdon but Les Salles-sur-Verdon. The original village is now completely underwater. The other villages around the lake are: Sainte-Croix-du-Verdon Bauduen Les Salles-sur-Verdon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Places to see in ( Nice - France ) Monastere de Cimiez
Places to see in ( Nice - France ) Monastere de Cimiez
The monastery of Cimiez was founded in the ix th century by the monks Benedictines of the Abbey of Saint-Pons , and it brings together the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption ( xv th century ) and the Franciscan Museum which, Franciscan life in Nice from the xiii th century .
The most famous of Franciscans in Nice is Brother Marc, who became the fray Marcos de Niza and gave, it is said, the name of the founder of his order to the site of the future city of San Francisco ( California ). Since 1546 he has been occupied by the Franciscans. The Franciscans of Cimiez are also responsible for the parish of Sainte-Marie-des-Anges in Nice ( Cimiez and Vallon des Fleurs for Nice, as well as the neighboring town of Falicon ). Today, a fraternity of four brothers from Assisi (Italy) provides service to the parish of Sainte-Marie-des-Anges.
In the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, we can admire three major paintings of the primitive Nice Louis Bréa : a Pietà , the Crucifixion , and the Deposition , which correspond to 40 years of the activity of the artist. In the beautiful setting offered by the cloister monastery ( xvi th century ), on the occasion of Nice Musical Nights are held classical concerts. This same cloister is used in summer, in good weather, for Sunday Masses .
The remarkable garden that surrounds the building is the former vegetable garden of the monks. The salad of mesclun was invented by the Franciscan fathers of the monks of the monastery of Cimiez in Nice. They mixed various seeds together, creating lou mesclun. The custom was to offer to the poor the plants which they split and which they carried in a espourtoula (sort of basket with handle, rattan in the form of inverted capelin).
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