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The Best Attractions In Jurancon

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Cru Lamouroux

Clos Lapeyre

Les Gorges de Kakuetta

Cirque de Gavarnie

Grottes de Betharram

Pont d'Espagne

Parc Animalier Des Pyrenees

Pic Du Midi

Jurançon is a wine region in South West France in the foothills of the Pyrenees, around the commune of Jurançon. It produces a dry white wine and a more sought after sweet white wine. The grape varieties used are Gros Manseng, Petit Manseng and Courbu. The sweet wines develop aromas of tropical fruit such as pineapple and mango. The vines are grown on steep mountain slopes and for the sweet wines the grapes are often hand selected well into October and November to ensure the best noble rot characteristics - although Tim Wildman MW states that noble rot is not the origin of sweetness in these wines.
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The Best Attractions In Jurancon

1. Cru Lamouroux Jurancon
2. Clos Lapeyre Jurancon
A clos is a walled vineyard. Walled vineyards protected the grapes from theft and may improve the mesoclimate. They were often the vineyards of Cistercian monasteries. The word is often used in the name of famous wines even when the wall no longer exists.
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3. Cirque de Gavarnie Gavarnie
The Cirque de Gavarnie is a cirque in the central Pyrenees, in Southwestern France, close to the border of Spain. It is within the commune of Gavarnie, the department of Hautes-Pyrénées, and the Pyrénées National Park. Major features of the cirque are La Brèche de Roland and the Gavarnie Falls. It was described by Victor Hugo as the Colosseum of nature due to its enormous size and horseshoe shape resembling an ancient amphitheatre.The cirque is 800 m wide and about 3,000 m wide at the top. The rock walls that surround it are up to 1,500 metres above the floor of the Cirque.During the warmer seasons of spring, summer and fall, there are a number of large meltwater falls that spill into the cirque. The largest of these is Gavarnie Falls, the second-highest waterfall in Europe. It descen...
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4. Pic Du Midi La Mongie
5. Pont d'Espagne Cauterets
Pont d'Espagne is a stone-built bridge that spans the Gave de Marcadau at the point where it meets the Gave de Gaube, near one of its sources high in the French Pyrenees. It is a protected area of the Pyrénées in the Pyrénées National Park. The Pont d'Espagne is at an altitude of approx 1500m. The name translates as Spanish Bridge. The bridge used to join Spain and France through the mountains. Google Satellite Map There is a car park nearby and it is possible to get to Lac de Gaube by ski lift. The nearest towns are Cauterets and Lourdes. Coordinates: 42°51′04″N 00°08′24″W
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6. Parc Animalier Des Pyrenees Ayzac Ost
7. Les Gorges de Kakuetta Sainte Engrace
8. Grottes de Betharram Saint Pe De Bigorre
The Grottes de Bétharram are a series of French caves located at the border of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées departments and of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions. Located near Asson, Lestelle-Bétharram and Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre, they offer a threeway discovery: by foot, by boat and finally, by train, the key to similar cave formation. The entrance is located in Asson and the exit in Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre.
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Jurancon Videos

Exploring the French City of Pau - Vanlife France

Exploring the French City of Pau - Vanlife France
In our last episode of our European Vanlife 2018 series we arrive in the French city of Pau.

We meet up with some friends - Robin and Agnes who show us around their city and take us to a great restaurant in the evening.

We hope you enjoy this episode and stay tuned for lots of exciting travel vlogs as we are heading to Central America in just 2 days !!

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- Written in the Stars - Gloria Tells
- Derail - Yellowbase
- Drive Drive Drive - Loving Caliber

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L'Umbria tra le 10 Best Wine Travel Destinations 2014

L'Umbria tra le 10 Best Wine Travel Destinations 2014 del magazine Usa Wine Enthusiast, che incorona la terra del Sagrantino, Orvieto, Torgiano e altri, della cultura e dei paesaggi storici e ancora intatti al top dell'enoturismo mondiale
Un successo raccontato dai protagonisti del territorio: da Marco Caprai (Caprai), Enzo Barbi (Decugnano dei Barbi), Chiara Lungarotti (Lungarotti), e dall'Assessore all'Agricoltura dell'Umbria, Fernanda Cecchini

France 2008 [Part1/2]

MUSIC DISABLED BY YOUTUBE - This is the video I made of our Holiday 2008, for the first week of the holiday we went around visiting lots of different places nearby to where we staying in Luz St Saveur in France and then for the second week I went to go and stay with Solene in Pau and the rest of my family just stayed down on the campsite and continued exploring the area we were staying in.

Voyage Afrique du Sud : découvrez les vignobles d'Afrique Australe.

Vino Mundo : voyage au coeur des vignoles sud-africains.
Explorez un terroir riche de saveurs, des vins de réputation internationale et une gastronomie inventive.

Christophe Menozzi, Sommelier prounounces Jura

I asked Christophe Menozzi, sommelier of Château de Germigney restaurant in the Jura to pronounce the key words for the Jura wine region.

(607) Foods & beverage in Lourdes, France (HD) 3 with BGM

Jurançon is the famous sweet wine near Lourdes :-)
The aromas are like tropical fruit such as pineapple and mango =)
I love it ;-)

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