Exploring the Charente-Maritime, France
The Charente-Maritime department of France welcomes millions of visitors each year including over 33 million overnight stays. Will you be one of them?
The department in numbers:
102,000 hectares of forests
5300 km of hiking paths
460 km of coastline
200+ Romanesque churches
91 beaches
85 museums
42 marinas
4 islands
... and that's just the beginning. Come along on a virtual visit to France's Atlantic coast via my video and blog:
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Merano Italy Travel Guide - Life In Italy Vlog
In this Merano Italy travel guide, we go around the town where I've called home for the past 2 years of my life in Italy. Merano otherwise known as Meran in the region of Alto Adige (Südtirol/South Tyrol) Is a picturesque small city situated in the Alps just a hop skip and a jump away from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. In this video we'll go all around town form the Merano Train Station (Stazione Merano/Banhoff Meran) all the way to the center of town and into the old town, and up above Merano onto the Tappeiner Promenade (Passeggiata Tappeiner/Tappeinerweg).
Life in Italy and living in Italy have been quite the adventure and in this Friday night's video I take you all along with me on the adventure and search for the right gift for a friend who has helped me with taking care of a big piece of the puzzle when it comes to my upcoming move in Italy.
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Water Jousting Warriors - France’s Thousand-Year-Old Tradition
A stunning spectator sport, water jousting involves 'jousters' knocking each other into the water while wielding shields and lances. We follow the story of three generations of jousters as the take part in the annual jousting tournaments of Sète’s Saint-Louis Festival. Subscribe to Culture Trip for new videos every week:
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Places to see in ( Bolzano - Italy )
Places to see in ( Bolzano - Italy )
Bolzano is a city in the South Tyrol province of north Italy, set in a valley amid hilly vineyards. It's a gateway to the Dolomites mountain range in the Italian Alps. In the medieval city center, the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology features the Neolithic mummy called Ötzi the Iceman. Nearby is the imposing 13th-century Mareccio Castle, and the Duomo di Bolzano cathedral with its Romanesque and Gothic architecture.
Bolzano, the provincial capital of South Tyrol (known within the province as Südtirol, or in Italy as Alto Adige), is anything but provincial. Once a stop on the coach route between Italy and the flourishing Austro-Hungarian Empire, this small city is worldly and engaged, a long-time conduit between cultures. Its quality of life – one of the highest in Italy – is reflected in its openness, youthful energy and an all-pervading greenness. A stage-set-pretty backdrop of grassy, rotund hills sets off rows of pastel-painted townhouses, while bicycles ply riverside paths and wooden market stalls are laid out with Alpine cheese, speck (cured ham) and dark, seeded loaves. German may be the first language of 95% of the region, but Bolzano is an anomaly. Today its Italian-speaking majority – a legacy of Mussolini's brutal Italianisation program of the 1920s and the more recent siren call of education and employment opportunities – looks both north and south for inspiration.
Bolzano is the capital city of South Tyrol, the German speaking region in the northern part of Italy. Bolzano is the largest city in the region. Its archaeology museum is famous worldwide as the home of the alpine iceman Ötzi. It is also known as the Italian Capital of Christmas thanks to its characteristic Christmas market.
The city is administratively composed of 5 districts with a district mayor and council. These are:
City Centre - Bozner Boden/Piani di Bolzano-Rentsch/Rencio
Oberau/Oltrisarco-Haslach/Aslago
Europa-Neustift/Novacella
Don Bosco
Gries-St.Quirein/San Quirino
Bolzano has been a trading point since its foundation owing to its location between the two major cities of Venice and Augsburg. In 1262 it was elevated to a Stadt (city). In 1363 Bolzano became part of the Habsburg monarchy as part of the county of Tyrol. Four times a year a market was held and traders came from the south and the north. The mercantile magistrate was therefore founded in 1635. Every market season two Italian and two German officers (appointed from the traders who operated there) held this office. The city was a cultural crossroads at that time.
Bolzano has many special features: it's an Italian city with Austrian flair. In the city centre you will mostly hear people speak German or Austro-Bavarian. Nowadays, however, Italian- and German-speaking people are living together in bilingual Bolzano. Generally Bozner or Bolzanini are friendly and helpful. Most German-speaking people can speak Italian but Italian-speaking people are unlikely to be able to speak German. Nevertheless many young people can also speak English and a few can speak French too. In South Tyrolean schools the learning of the second language (Italian for German-speakers and vice-versa) and of English is compulsory.
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My Life In Italy - Gelato and Errands (Merano, Italy)
My life in Italy since arriving almost 2 years ago has been at times quite exciting but of course, I have some regular laidback afternoons too. Because I've been getting requests to show more of Italy and to show more of where I live in Italy. In this video, we'll be going around where I live in Merano, Italy. Gelato in Italy without a doubt is one of my favorite things and absolutely one of the many reasons why I thought moving to Italy and living in italy as an expat in Italy would be a good idea. Even in such a small area, there are many choices of very delicious gelato places. I can for sure say that just based on the number of great gelaterias here in Merano, Italy... that it's one of the best places to live in Italy.
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Trentino-Alto Adige - Wine Passport/ Mondays With Mary 11.12.18
Get your #WinePassport ready and bring your ski gear along for todays trip! VP of Fine Wine & Education and Advanced Sommelier Mary Horn takes us to the Trentino-Alto Adige part of Italy to explore this northern region of Italy.
Trentino represents the southern area which is more Italian and Alto Adige represents the north which is more German culturally speaking.
Places to see in ( La Rochelle - France ) Vieux Port
Places to see in ( La Rochelle - France ) Vieux Port
The Old Port is the oldest port of La Rochelle and the historic heart of this city of Charente-Maritime ( New Aquitaine ). The tower of the chain and the tower Saint Nicolas keep the entrance of this medieval port. It was thanks to this port that La Rochelle gained importance during the Hundred Years War , then with the discovery of America. In the xvii th and xviii th centuries, the Old Port of La Rochelle has attracted more than half of colonial trade to New France , which makes today a place of pilgrimage for many tourists.
The access channel to the Old Port is dredged to the coast -0.50 meter from the Richelieu Tower. It is at the Old Port of La Rochelle that the Marans Canal ends at La Rochelle. The primitive port of La Rochelle was located on the river Lafond, up to the castle Vauclair (currently Place de Verdun). This port was quickly saturated and victim of its defects (low draft, access and difficult maneuver, siltation), it no longer responded to the increase in capacity of ships and cargo (wine and salt). The port entrance was defended by the lantern tower
During the surrender of the city, following the episode of the great siege , Louis XIII ordered the demolition of all the fortifications except the seafront. In April 1689, La Rochelle , stripped of its fortifications on the ground, is vulnerable to an attack from the enemies that King Louis XIV had leagued against him. To avoid danger, the King's council, undoubtedly under the influence of Louvois, finds no better remedy than to shave La Rochelle and fill his port. Fortunately for the city, the Marshal de Lorges , to whom the king had entrusted the command of the coasts between the Loire and the Garonne, seconded by François Ferry , general engineer of the provinces between the Loire and the Pyrenees, protested against this wild project, in pledging to put La Rochelle in a state of defense in a short time and without major expenses.
The old port has twice hosted an extreme diving competition. The event brought together more than 40,000 spectators at the foot of the building in 2009. The competition consists of diving from the Saint-Nicolas tower. From 1778, under the direction of engineers Leclerc and Lescure de Bellerive, was undertaken the digging of the basin afloat, in the stirrup called Petite-Rive. Its commissioning will be done in 1808.
During the xix th century, the harbor is occupied by the fleet of fishing boats and the inner basin by small coasters. The old port becoming too small to accommodate merchant ships, it was decided in 1862 to dig the outer basin , whose location is beyond the fortifications. In the shape of an inverted L, this port has direct access to the Rompsay Canal and the rail network . A lock gate provides high tide access to the channel and a swing bridge allows communication between Gabut and the wooden town.
The lifting bridge of the Gabut or Sherzer Bridge , named after the engineer who designed it is a structure of type tilting / rolling lift . In 1935, it was decided to replace the swing bridge by a lift bridge. The lift bridge pivots like a drawbridge on a transverse axis. At the rear of this axis, two toothed arches are connected to huge counterweights and lift the fly rolling on their rack. Built for the port of Marseille in 1927 by the company Fivellile, the book is transported to La Rochelle by the sea in 1936, before being reassembled. The movable metal structure, once lifted, allows to release a passage of 16.50 m.
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Durian Fruit: A Smell So Rotten, a Taste So Sweet
Durian has been described as the most foul-smelling fruit in the world. Its aroma has been compared to raw sewage, rotting flesh and smelly gym socks. Durian’s smell is so pungent that the spiky-skinned, custard-like fruit is even banned from public places in Singapore and Malaysia. But for its fans, there is nothing better in this world.
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Goa has a few floating casinos so we thought we'd take you to the best one - Casino Pride!!!
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WHAT TO DO IN ROME!! | ITALY | Travel vlog 7
We loved this city so much even though it was almost 120 degrees! In this video, we take on the challenge of roaming around in scooters and got on the highway 5 minutes into our ride. Alex also pranks some people by ding dong ditching them and he also has his first espresso which makes him go a little insane. We hope you guys enjoy it as much as we enjoy eating pizza.
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