Places to see in ( Menton - France ) Sainte Agnes
Places to see in ( Menton - France ) Sainte Agnes
Sainte-Agnès is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Fort Maginot de Sainte Agnes is now a museum and was built as part of the Maginot Line in 1932. It sits overlooking the city of Menton and the Mediterranean. The narrow road to the village provides views of Roquebrune Cap Martin, Menton and on to Italy.
This is a definitely lovely, but touristy, little village perched on the flank of a mountain, high above the Mediterranean. The one thing that saves Sainte Agnes from being overrun is that it's not easy to get to; only 4 km from the coast as the eagle flies, it's about 12 km of narrow and twisty mountain roads by car, above Menton at the eastern end of the French Riviera.
There are 3 Sainte-Agnès in France: Beyond's in the Alpes-Maritimes (06), one in Isère (38) and one in the Jura (39). This one is labeled the highest coastal village in Europe. The little access road climbs at a rate of 100 m vertical for each km of length.
Note: The name agnes in French is pronounced without the hard g, like anyes. Sainte-Agnès village has narrow stone-paved streets and many arched passages, and everything is pretty well restored. Many of the village houses are 15th to 18th century.
According to legend, the chateau-fort was built by a Saracen Prince Haroun, who had fallen in love with a young Provençal girl. The chateau was restored in 1502, but today is in ruins. Enough of the ancient walls remain, complete with arrow slits, to give a good feeling of what it was like in medieval times. Archaeological digs at the chateau site have unearthed at least 23 skeletons along with other artifacts, indicating habitation to the Bronze Age or even to the Neolithic era. The walk from the village up to the chateau site is steep and takes a bit of effort. The site includes a medieval garden, information panels (in French) about the medieval life, and magnificent views.
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Places to see in ( Menton - France )
Places to see in ( Menton - France )
Menton is a town on the French Riviera in southeast France. It’s known for beaches and gardens such as the Serre de la Madone garden, showcasing rare plants. East, the hilly, medieval old town is home to Basilique Saint-Michel, with its 18th-century bell tower, and the ornate facade of La Chapelle des Pénitents-Blancs. Nearby, the Musée Jean Cocteau collection Séverin Wunderman displays works by poet Jean Cocteau.
Menton is the The Lemon Festival Capital of the World, located very close to the border of France and Italy and in many ways is more Italian than French. It has its own microclimate, generally milder than the rest of the French Riviera, and became in the late Nineteenth Century a place where Northern Europeans with TB came to either regain their health or to die. As a result its cemetery is filled with the graves of notable Englishmen, Germans, Russians. The old town is largely pedestrianised which adds to the charm of this sedate resort.
Last stop on the Côte d’Azur before Italy, the seaside town of Menton offers a glimpse of what the high life on the Riviera must have been like before the developers moved in. With its sunny climate, shady streets and pastel mansions – not to mention a lovely old port – it’s one of the most attractive towns on the entire coast. Menton’s old town is a cascade of pastel-coloured buildings. Add a fantastic museum dedicated to the great artist and film director Jean Cocteau, as well as several excellent restaurants, and Menton really is a must.
Alot to see in Menton such as :
Jean Cocteau Museum Although it was previously in a bastion near the port, the new museum is a purpose built building designed by the Italian Architect Rudi Ricotti and houses an incredible modern interactive display of drawings, ceramics, tapestries and a large mosaic by the artist.
Salle des Marriages In the town hall, the civic wedding hall is decorated completely in murals by Jean Cocteau.
The charming old town is compact and largely pedestrianised.
Several impressive gardens dotted through the town including those at Garavan (Olive trees in Parc du Pian, Jardin Exotique, Villa Fontana Rosa).
Casino and the magnificent hotels Royal Westminster and Ambassadeurs.
Cimetière du Vieux Chateau Russian Orthodox chapel, grave of William Webb Ellis - founder of Rugby football, view over town.
The perched villages inland (Ste Agnes and Gorbio).
The Mare Nostrum brewery in Castillon.
Fête du Citron There's a lemon party and you're invited! Lemon-related festivities over several days in February.
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Highest Seaside Village in Europe (Sainte-Agnès)
I have this clip on Dailymotion but upon consideration, I'm going to post it here on YouTube, also. (Usually, I don't put the same clips on both sites, in duplication.)
On the French riviera where I stayed for a couple of weeks recently, the Maritime Alps go right to the Mediterranean. Above the sea and beautiful beaches and gulfs, there are many perched villages. Sainte-Agnès is near Menton and Monaco, and you can take a little bus up there -- public transportation. Driving yourself is a real challenge, but fun if you like that. We did -- scary fun!
Apparently, this really is the highest seaside village in Europe. I was here before nine o'clock on a weekday morning. The old military fort/installation wasn't open, and if I understood correctly, is really just open during June, July and August (I visited in May). I'm sure it's very interesting. This is the one place where the Maginot Line did hold. (I mispronounce Maginot on the clip. The g is soft, not hard the way I said it.)
I'm disabled and didn't feel up to attempting to climb to the summit and the château, but my spouse did. He said it was strenuous, but he enjoyed it. It took him about 40 minutes to an hour, climbing and descending.
I stayed in the village, thinking, This is not a place for people who fear heights. Really, it's pretty dizzying. I found it difficult to walk without being pitched forward.
This region has two dry seasons per year, thus two Springs. It's an interesting microclimate. Even in the typical hot or warm, clear, sunny weather, clouds appearing quickly on the mountains, obscuring them, are a common sight.
I felt a sadness to this village. Maybe I wasn't feeling well or was just imagining things. Surely, people have lived, suffered and died here -- often violently, in war and conflict -- since ancient times. It's a beautiful village, however, with stacked stone buildings, tiny alleys, terraces, and an auberge where I sat for a bit and had a morning tomato juice. Far below, I could see a couple of stray horses being collected by a person with a dog, to join a group for riding. They were tiny, way below, yet in the gorge, I could hear them, quite far off.
We rented a beach house in this area for a week, then an apartment in a Medieval village, way up high. It was really excellent.
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LES PLUS BEAUX VILLAGES DE FRANCE
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Aujourd´hui, ma mère et moi on fait un parcours des plus beaux villages de France: Honfleur, Barfleur, Riquewhir, Château-Chalon, Ornans, Pérouges, Chamonix, Sainte-Agnès, Bormes-les-Mimosas, Balazuc, Collonges-la-Rouge, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.
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My next exploration of the great city of Lyon was to go to the Croix Rousse district which had made the city rich with its silk weaving. Lyon has a tradition of painting scenes of its everyday life on the barren walls of buildings. The next person that I visted is painted on the wall, Mr. Matalon, who tells of his life as a weaver and the mysteries of the looms. After that I visited the amazing velvet who makes pasmenterie which is the gold braid that is sewn onto officers uniforms and churchmen's robes. She told me that she had been born is this very room on the other side of the loom. When her father had started here there had been no motor and he had to turn a handle all day long without stopping which would have been fatal for the weaving process. She said she was 89 years old one more she said proudly that Mr. Matalon who was 88 years old. She had worked for 20 years for the Russian Orthodox with gold thread but then they tried Japanese plastic gold tread which didn't work when you put it in the washing machine. Now all the thread is plastic with a good coating of gold that doesn't come off. She told me that she had worked for 54 years on these two looms here.
Here is where they make the real gold thread for the burnooses for the Arab sheikhs. Agnes makes her living making silk velvet. She explains the process of making silk velvet and the dangers. She says is working with 8000 threads and is lucky to weave half a yard a day.
Mr. Maire was the next person I visited. He does something called moiré which he explains in depth. I find this section extremely interesting. Apparently the ancient invented this method of patterning silk by strapping stones on the insides of their knees and then pressing their knees together.
In the heart of the Croix Rousse is a restaurant run by Geoff and his wife Janine. Janine, an excellent cook confessed that she had learnt all her cooking from cookery books. Geoff supplies the bonhomie in spades. Before I left I was kidnapped by La Grosse, a very large lady indeed, who told me that she had been a silk weaver for 45 years and that she was going to show me the silk weavers museum whether I liked it or not.
Round the corner Madame Riva shows me how she paints silk. She makes it all look so simple with the just a piece of cotton wool and some dyes. We then go a huge factory for silk scarves which is run Andre Canova. All the colours come from a carousel and prove popular.
The house of Prelle is one of the heavy weights of the silk weaving business. He talks of the dangers of leaving the threads taught over the weekend. He then tells a story of Gloria Vanderbilt who was one of the big spenders of her day and had order material for her newly built ballroom on Rhode Island in 1890. The years had passed and now the owners of the mansion wished to restore the ballroom to its former glory. Prelle had received a tiny sample of the original material from the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Do you know who wove this they wrote? Our archivist said I know this pattern and she produced the original order their sample, the name of the weaver, and even samples of the original threads. They were starting on the new order in a few days. The order was for 100 metres and they thought they would weave half a metre a day.
I thought I had seen just about everything in the silk velvet line but when I go to Tassnerie I realised that I hadn't. There are no modern machines in this workshop. We are weaving 19 metres of special material for Versailles with 27 colours and it will take two years if all goes well. There are 44,000 cards for one repeat of the design. He only manages to weave a few inches every day. This really blew my mind.
Places to see in ( Collioure - France )
Places to see in ( Collioure - France )
Collioure is a town on the Mediterranean coast of southern France. On the sea, the medieval Château Royal de Collioure offers dramatic coastal views. The bell tower of 17th-century Notre-Dame-des-Anges Church was once a lighthouse. The Modern Art Museum includes paintings by Henri Matisse. Nearby is the Moulin de Collioure, a 14th-century windmill. South, the hilltop Fort St. Elme has a museum with medieval weapons.
Collioure is a seaside resort on the Languedoc coast, just north of the border with Spain and on the 'Vermeille Coast'. It was historically a small fishing village then after a time as an an important military centre, Collioure began to attract the artistic community including such renowned artists as Matisse and Derain in the early 20th century. It is now a very popular destination with tourists and Collioure has a lively town centre with some interesting historical monuments and a popular local beach. With the castle and church creating an impressive backdrop, the beach and harbour are among the most scenic in Languedoc-Roussillon.
Start your visit by walking along the sea-front: there are the wonderful sights of the castle and the church of Notre Dame des Anges to admire and as you wander along the Boulevard du Boramar between the two there are lots of lovely seaside bars and restaurants to tempt you. Collioure is by far the most attractive town on this stretch of the Mediterranean coast and is definitely not to be missed. It also feels slightly out of place: you feel as if you are in the heart of Provence rather than close to the Spanish border
Head uphill into the town itself and the narrow streets are charming. The houses are painted in lovely pastel shades with painted shutters and many are bedecked with trailing bougainvillea and vibrant blue plumbagos. Out of season the market days are particularly nice days to visit the town: these are on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. But it is useful to remember that in peak season it is always difficult to find a parking space in Collioure ... and even harder on market days
The Church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges stands on a small peninsula in the sea. The belltower of the church was the town lighthouse in medieval times, with a church then built next to it in the 17th century. Later, when the harbour was no longer used as a port, the lighthouse was incorporated as the church belltower. The domed cupola (in an Italian style) was added early in the 19th century. The interior of the church has a huge carved wooden altarpiece covered in gold leaf.
The Royal Castle of Collioure, Le Chateau Royal, dominates the seafront at the southern end of the harbour. The site has had a castle since as early as the 7th century, but the building we see today was constructed in the 13th century, with additions until the 17th century. Le More is the old fishing village and the narrow cobbled streets and pretty pastel-painted houses are a pleasure to explore.
Above the town is the Fort Miradou, built in the 15th century, destroyed and rebuilt by Vauban. It is now occupied by the army and not open to the public. Further out of town facing the sea are these two fortresses built in the 18th century - Fort Carré and Fort Rond. On the southern edge of town the monastery was built in the 13th century. In recent years the cloister has had a chequered history. It became the home of a co-operative wine seller but was sold in an illegal art sale to the Atlantic town of Anglet. When this was discovered it was bought back in 1992 and rebuilt in the gardens of the Modern Art Mueum.
Anchovies has been a one of Collioure's key industries for centuries. Because of the importance of anchovies in the local commerce and the local cuisine Collioure has been awarded the 'site remarquable du gout', or' award of culinary excellence'. The anchovies are prepared in lots of different ways and you can sample them in various different shops in Collioure. Collioure has been a trading port since 673 and the village began to develop more fully in the 10th century.
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St Agnes beach 2 MPG
St Agnes is of the best small beaches in Cornwall. It's where I grew up and the local area is fantastic. There is clean, clear water, great for snorkelling, kayaking and swimming. The surfing is not as good as the likes of Fistral, Porthleven or Gwithian, but for a relaxing day out when there's no swell it's great. And there's a great pub just up the road.
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Saint Sulpice
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Saint Sulpice
Saint-Sulpice is a Roman Catholic church in Paris, France, on the east side of the Place Saint-Sulpice within the rue Bonaparte, in the Odéon Quarter of the 6th arrondissement. At 113 metres long, 58 metres in width and 34 metres tall, it is only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame and thus the second largest church in the city. It is dedicated to Sulpitius the Pious. Construction of the present building, the second church on the site, began in 1646. During the 18th century, an elaborate gnomon, the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice, was constructed in the church.
The present church is the second building on the site, erected over a Romanesque church originally constructed during the 13th century. Additions were made over the centuries, up to 1631. The new building was founded in 1646 by parish priest Jean-Jacques Olier (1608–1657) who had established the Society of Saint-Sulpice, a clerical congregation, and a seminary attached to the church. Anne of Austria laid the first stone.
Construction began in 1646 to designs which had been created in 1636 by Christophe Gamard, but the Fronde interfered, and only the Lady Chapel had been built by 1660, when Daniel Gittard provided a new general design for most of the church. Gittard completed the sanctuary, ambulatory, apsidal chapels, transept, and north portal (1670–1678), after which construction was halted for lack of funds.
In 1732 a competition was held for the design of the west facade, won by Servandoni, who was inspired by the entrance elevation of Christopher Wren's Saint Paul's Cathedral in London. The 1739 Turgot map of Paris shows the church without Oppenord's crossing bell-tower, but with Servandoni's pedimented facade mostly complete, still lacking however its two towers. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1766, the work was continued by others, primarily the obscure Oudot de Maclaurin, who erected twin towers to Servandoni's design. Servandoni's pupil Jean Chalgrin rebuilt the north tower (1777–1780), making it taller and modifying Servandoni's baroque design to one that was more neoclassical, but the French Revolution intervened, and the south tower was never replaced.
Inside the church to either side of the entrance are the two halves of an enormous shell (Tridacna gigas) given to King Francis I by the Venetian Republic. They function as holy water fonts and rest on rock-like bases sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. Pigalle also designed the large white marble statue of Mary in the Lady Chapel at the far end of the church. The stucco decoration surrounding it is by Louis-Philippe Mouchy.
The church has a long-standing tradition of talented organists that dates back to the eighteenth century. In 1862, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll reconstructed and improved the existing organ built by François-Henri Clicquot. The case was designed by Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin and built by Monsieur Joudot. In Saint-Sulpice, Sunday organ recitals are held on a regular basis (Auditions des Grandes Orgues à Saint Sulpice, following the High Mass, starting around 12:00 noon). The Sunday High Mass is preceded by a 15-minute Prelude of the Great Organ, starting at 10:45 am.
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