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Castle Attractions In Salies-de-Bearn

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Salies-de-Béarn is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water . During the expanded, pre-liberation occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone. Between September 1941 and the summer of 1942, Jean Anouilh wrote his famous adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone in the comparatively idyllic setting of Salies-de-Bearn, relieved of the invader's presence, the evening curfews and the deprivations of Paris. The play premiered in Occupied Paris in February 1944. Salies-de-Bearn served as the setting for ...
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Castle Attractions In Salies-de-Bearn

  • 1. Chateau d'Abbadie Hendaye
    The Château d'Abbadia, also Château d'Abbadie, is a château in Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. Built between 1864 and 1879, it was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and incorporated many enigmatic features characteristic of its owner, the explorer Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, after whom it is named.
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