Places to see in ( Brest - France )
Places to see in ( Brest - France )
Brest is a port city in Brittany, in northwestern France, bisected by the Penfeld river. It’s known for its rich maritime history and naval base. At the mouth of the Penfeld, overlooking the harbor, is the National Navy Museum, housed in the medieval Château de Brest. Across the river stands Tour Tanguy, a medieval tower. To the northeast are the National Botanical Conservatory and the Océanopolis aquarium.
Brest is Brittany’s second largest administrative centre, and has a great deal to offer. Although it was heavily bombed in 1944, this is by no means the town’s most interesting feature: it has rebuilt itself around a vision of the future, with incredible constructions like the Pont de l'Iroise bridge, which crosses the river Elorn. An amazing feat of architecture, this magnificent cable-stayed bridge was opened in 1994. Admire it from Albert Louppe bridge, which is for pedestrians and cyclists only. It’s a great place to take a walk and enjoy the view of the famous Brest harbour, the ‘Rade de Brest’, a sheltered area of the sea big enough for great ships to lie at anchor.
Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbor and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental Europe. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest is at the centre of Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area (with a population of 300,300 in total), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany.
Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture (regional capital) of the department is the much smaller Quimper.
During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour. Brest grew around its arsenal, until the second part of the 20th century. Heavily damaged by the Allies' bombing raids during World War II, the city centre was completely rebuilt after the war. At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the deindustrialization of the city was followed by the development of the service sector. Nowadays, Brest is an important university town with 23,000 students.[3] Besides a multidisciplinary university, the University of Western Brittany, Brest and its surrounding area possess several prestigious French elite schools such as École Navale (the French Naval Academy), Télécom Bretagne and the Superior National School of Advanced Techniques of Brittany (ENSTA Bretagne, formerly ENSIETA). Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) centre, le Cedre (Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution) and the French Polar Institute.
Brest’s history has always been linked to the sea: the Académie de Marine (Naval Academy) was founded in 1752 in this city. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was built there. Every four years, Brest hosts the international festival of the sea, boats and sailors: it is a meeting of old riggings from around the world (Les Tonnerres de Brest).
Alot to see ( Brest - France ) such as :
Oceanopolis
Tour Tanguy
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Service historique de la Défense - Antenne de Brest
Château de Brest
Phare du Petit Minou
National Maritime Museum
Élorn
Moulin Blanc beach
Les Ateliers des Capucins Brest
Roadstead of Brest
Le Vallon du Stang Alar
Strawberry Museum and Heritage
The Garden of the Explorers
Plougastel Bridge
Fort Montbarey
Bois De Keroual
exotique de Saint Renan Garden
Fort du Dellec
Maison de la Fontaine
Parc d'Eole
Musée du Ponant
Chapelle Saint Jaoua
rocher imperatrice
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Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Musee de la Vie Romantique
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Musee de la Vie Romantique
The Musée de la Vie romantique stands at the foot of Montmartre hill in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, 16 rue Chaptal, Paris, France in an 1830 hôtel particulier facing two twin-studios, a greenhouse, a small garden, and a paved courtyard. The museum is open daily except Monday. Permanent collections are free. An admission fee is charged for temporary exhibitions. The nearest métro stations are Pigalle, Blanche, Saint-Georges, and Liège.
The Musée de la Vie romantique is one of the 14 City of Paris Museums that have been incorporated since January 1, 2013 in the public institution Paris Musées. The main pavilion, built in 1830, was the Paris base of the Dutch-born painter Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), one of the prominent artists of the time, close to King Louis-Philippe and his family. For decades, Scheffer and his daughter hosted Friday-evening salons, among the most famous in La Nouvelle Athènes. George Sand (1804–1876) used to come as a neighbour with Frédéric Chopin, meeting Eugène Delacroix, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Alphonse de Lamartine, Franz Liszt, Gioacchino Rossini and singer Pauline Viardot. Later in the century, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgueniev, and Charles Gounod attended regularly.
The property remained in private hands and passed by descent until 1982 when it became a museum, under the name of Musée Renan-Scheffer. It is one of the City of Paris' three literary museums, along with the Maison de Balzac and the Maison de Victor Hugo. After an extensive renovation conducted by Jacques Garcia under the direction of Anne-Marie de Brem, it reopened in 1987 as Musée de la Vie romantique. Daniel Marchesseau, conservateur général du Patrimoine, was appointed director in November 1998. For 13 years, he developed an ambitious program of exhibitions and acquisitions. Attendance has widely grown, from 18.000 visitors a year (1998) to 145.000 in 2010. He retired in winter 2013. His successor, Jérôme Farigoule, was appointed in September 2013.
The Museum displays on the first floor numerous mementos of the romantic literary figure George Sand, including family portraits, household possessions, pieces of jewelry and memorabilia including plaster casts by Clésinger of the writer's sensuous right arm and Chopin's delicate left hand, plus a number of her own unique and rare watercolours called dendrites.
On the second floor, one can admire a number of Romantic canvases, sculptures and objets d'art.
Paintings by Ary Scheffer include portraits of Pauline Viardot, Queen Marie-Amélie, Princesse de Joinville, Princesse Marie d'Orléans, as well as oils of The Giaour (after Lord Byron), Faust and Marguerite (after Goethe), Effie and Jeanie Deans after The Heart of Midlothian by Walter Scott.
Works by his contemporaries include François Bouchot (Maria Malibran), François Debon, Charles Durupt, Louis Hersent, Redouté, Camille Roqueplan.
Sculptures are by Barre, Bartholdi, Théophile Bra (Mme Mention, bronze), Auguste Clésinger (Self-portrait and Portrait of George Sand, marble), Dantan, David d'Angers, Jean-Jacques Feuchère (Satan), François-Désiré Froment-Meurice, Théodore Gechter (Harold, bronze), Antonin Moine (Sully, bronze), Marie d'Orléans (La Chasse au faucon, I & 2, plaster, ca. 1835), James Pradier (Sappho, bronze), Christian Daniel Rauch (Goethe, bronze, 1820)...
The Museum also displays several portraits and material related to the famous scholar and writer Ernest Renan who had married Ary Scheffer's niece.
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Architecture in Tarascon, France
This is a short clip showing some aspects of the town of Tarascon, France.
I found bastide aspects here such as in these porch buildings.
Bastides were a grid form of English town down in France long ago, a kind of fortification and also city management. Sanitation was easier to deal with when things were all squared off, like. The porches afforded some shelter in bad weather or from hot sun and all, and bourgeois families lived there and on the ground floor, under a porch which gave more space to the abode above also, had a big arch window from which they dealt their wares.
These houses usually had a tiny space between them where a real gutter system was set up. Kitchen sinks and all would expel neatly there and be collected in gutters. I just rented a house for a week at 24, rue Renan in Arles not far from Tarascon, and when it rained there the gutters filled right up and were super essential! The little street I stayed on for a week is cobblestoned and no cars are allowed of course, and in order for it to stay clean and clear, a basic system of drainage and good services by city cleaners are needed.
Tarascon is across the river from Beaucaire, its sister city. It is on the Rhône river near the Mediterranean sea, and there are huge castles here, a horse and bullfighting culture and rice production. Tarascon has a history of tolerance and acceptance of Jews, and as I entered the town from the castle of Le Roi René, I went down Jew Street.
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IVT - Le Carnaval des enfants
Samedi 23 mars 2019 de 14h à 18h
Déambulation libre et joyeuse
Par Alexis Dussaix
14h à 14h45 ou 15h15 à 16h :
Visites guidées pour les enfants du Musée de la vie romantique
Musée de la Vie Romantique - 16 rue Chaptal - Paris 9ème
En LSF-français (en présence d’interprète)
Gratuit - Dès 6 ans
Réservation obligatoire auprès d'IVT. Dans la limite de 2 adultes par enfant.
Le Musée de la vie romantique est un voisin hors du commun ! Il abrite le fabuleux univers de grandes figures du Romantisme : la romancière Georges Sand, le peintre Ary Scheffer et le philosophe Ernest Renan. A l’occasion du Carnaval des enfants d’IVT, il ouvre ses portes aux enfants de 6 ans et plus pour une visite ludique et passionnante vers une autre époque.
Se présenter sur place 15 min avant l’heure de la visite choisie.
Les visites commenceront à l’heure.
14h à 16h :
Lecture de contes en LSF-français par les Bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris
IVT - International Visual Theatre
Entrée gratuite sans réservation
Bibliothèque hors-les-murs : une équipe de conteurs venus des différents Pôles sourds des Bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris sera présente pour lire des contes merveilleux aux enfants, en français et en LSF.
16h30 à 17h :
Carnaval des enfants
IVT - International Visual Theatre
Entrée gratuite sans réservation
En présence de percussionnistes de batucada, nous invitons vos enfants à participer à un défilé festif ! Seul mot d’ordre : venir déguisé ! Le thème du Carnaval est « Déguise-toi en un personnage de contes ». Une invitation à danser et à faire la fête, pour le plaisir des enfants !
Et d'autres surprises
D’autres activités attendront vos enfants : une scène libre d’improvisation théâtrale dans le théâtre, le visionnage de l’album de comptines en LSF Mes p’tits doigts m’ont dit… créé par un collectif d’enseignant sourds animé par Agnès Vourch’, etc.
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Cet évènement est organisé en partenariat avec le Musée de la vie romantique, les Pôles sourds des Bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris (Bibliothèque Chaptal, Médiathèque de la Canopée la fontaine, Bibliothèque Malraux, Bibliothèque Saint-Eloi, Bibliothèque Fessart) et Agnès Vourc'h.