Places to see in ( Nice - France ) Villefranche sur Mer
Places to see in ( Nice - France ) Villefranche sur Mer
Villefranche-sur-Mer is a very picturesque Medieval beach village on the Mediterranean coast just a few km east of Nice. Once a fishing village and deep-water harbor, Villefranche retains its pastel colored buildings and narrow streets, along with long sandy beaches, terrace cafés and restaurants and an active yacht basin.
From the main road above, you can look down across the red tile roofs of the old town, with the distinctive church and bell tower in the center. Like the medieval villages of the back country, the narrow cobblestone and bricked streets slope steeply down (in this case towards the sea) or traverse along the slope, with vaulted passages beneath the houses. There's quite a medieval feeling here, with just the many little restaurants to remind you you're in tourist country. There are also quiet little squares, like the Place Félix Poullan beside the church, and the Place de l'Eglise just below, with a bench circling a beautiful big tree.
The most extreme example we've seen anywhere of a vaulted passage is the Rue Obscura, a street about a block in from the seafront that's completely covered for about half its length. Lighted only by white, wire-gridded lamps in the roof, the obscure street reminds you of the days when the town's population sheltered here from bombardments. Cross streets open out onto the sunny upper village or the even brighter seafront below.
The focal point of Villefranche-sur-Mer is the quai, where a line of terrace café-restaurants face the yacht harbor and out across the blue Mediterranean, backed the lovely village houses. Villefranche was once a fishing village attached to the town of Nice, and you can sometimes see some of the little pointu fishing boats in the harbor. Robert De Niro sat at one of these cafés, as Sam in the movie Ronin (1998), amidst action and car chases across the South of France.
The 16th-century military fortress, Citadelle Saint-Elme, sits at the south edge of Villefranche-sur-Mer, in easy walking distance from the port. The citadel was built in 1557 to protect the this port as well as the towns along this part of the Mediterranean. The fortress worked in conjunction with Fort Mont Alban (on the hilltop between Villefranche-sur-Mer and Nice), a defensive tower at Saint Jean-Cap-Ferrat, and the military battery at Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Citadelle Saint-Elme was occupied by the famous French mountain troups, Chasseurs Alpins until 1958. The site now hosts the Town Hall (Mairie) and some museums. Entry to the site is free, to walk around the fortified interior, visit the museums, and a very nice and shady park.
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Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
The old town and the bay have offered for years a natural set for movie makers. Among many productions to name just a few: - Raoul Walsh's Captain Horatio Hornblower - Adventures of Captain Fabian with Errol Flynn - Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief - The Count of Monte Cristo with Louis Jourdan - Leo McCarey's An Affair to Remember - The Madwoman of Chaillot with Katharine Hepburn - Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery - The Jewel of the Nile with Michael Douglas - The Bourne Identity with Richard Chamberlain - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin, as well as numerous video clips and commercials
Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France
Villefranche-sur-Saône è un comune francese di 35.246 abitanti situato nel dipartimento del Rodano della regione del Rodano-Alpi, sede di sottoprefettura.
È una delle capitali storiche della contea del Beaujolais.
Places to see in ( Lyon - France ) Traboules du Vieux Lyon
Places to see in ( Lyon - France ) Traboules du Vieux Lyon
Traboules (from Latin transambulare via vulgar Latin trabulare meaning to cross) are a type of passageway primarily associated with the city of Lyon, France, but also located in the French cities of Villefranche-sur-Saône, Mâcon, Saint-Étienne, along with a few in Chambéry). In Lyon, they were originally used by silk manufacturers and other merchants to transport their products.
The first examples of traboules are thought to have been built in Lyon in the 4th century. Lacking water, the inhabitants moved to the banks of the Saône (in the 'lower town', at the foot of the Fourvière hill). The traboules thus allowed them to get from their homes to the river quickly and allowed the canuts on the La Croix-Rousse hill to get quickly from their workshops to the textile merchants at the foot of the hill. Thus the traboules of Lyon are located primarily in the 'old city' (5th arrondissement) and the Croix Rousse (1st and 4th arrondissements) and are often credited with helping prevent the occupying Germans from taking complete control of these areas during World War II. The Traboule de la cour des Voraces (Traboule of the Voracious Court) is the most famous, located in the Croix-Rousse quarter. It is one of the landmarks of the Canut Revolts (Canut is a local term for silk workers) and it is also the oldest reinforced concrete stairwell in Lyon.
The layout of Vieux Lyon is such that there are very few connecting streets running perpendicular to the river. The traboules allowed workmen and craftsmen to transport clothes and other textiles through the city while remaining sheltered from inclement weather. For many inhabitants, being a true Lyonnais requires being knowledgeable about the city's traboules. Nowadays, traboules are tourist attractions, and over forty are free and open to the public. Most traboules are on private property, serving as entrances to local apartments. Many, if not most, of the underground passages have been blocked off and are currently used as storage areas.
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Places to see in ( Beaune - France )
Places to see in ( Beaune - France )
Beaune is a walled town at the center of the Burgundy winemaking region in France. Surrounded by the Côte d'Or vineyards, the cobbled town is renowned for an annual wine auction held at the Hôtel-Dieu (Hospices de Beaune). Recognized by its colorful, geometric-patterned tile roof, this 15th-century former hospital is now the Hôtel-Dieu Museum, showcasing works like The Last Judgement altarpiece by Van der Weyden.
Beaune (pronounced similarly to 'bone'), 44km south of Dijon, is the unofficial capital of the Côte d'Or. This thriving town's raison d'être and the source of its joie de vivre is wine: making it, tasting it, selling it, but most of all, drinking it. Consequently Beaune is one of the best places in all of France for wine tasting. The jewel of Beaune's old city is the magnificent Hôtel-Dieu, France's most splendiferous medieval charity hospital.
Beaune is one of the key wine centers in France, and the center of Burgundy wine production and business. The annual wine auction of the Hospices de Beaune is the primary wine auction in France. (The hospice structure, in the town center, being one of the best preserved renaissance buildings in Europe.)
The town is surrounded by some of the world's most famous wine villages, while the facilities and cellars of many producers, large and small, are situated in the historic center of Beaune itself, as they have been since Roman times. With a rich historical and architectural heritage, Beaune is considered the Capital of Burgundy wines. It is an ancient and historic town on a plain by the hills of the Côte d'Or, with features remaining from the pre-Roman and Roman eras, through the medieval and renaissance periods.
Beaune is a walled city, with about half of the battlements, ramparts, and the moat, having survived in good condition. The central old town or vieille ville is extensive. Historically Beaune is intimately connected with the Dukes of Burgundy. Landmarks in Beaune include the old market (les Halles), the 15th-century Hospices, the Beffroi (clock tower), and the collegiate church of Notre Dame. Beaune is the main center for the Burgundian tile polychrome renaissance roofing style of the region.
The name Beaune derives from the Latinised Gaulish word Belena, which was the name of a spring around which the settlement was established. That name in turn is derived from Belen or Belenos, a god of fast-flowing water. A Roman fort was built there in the first century A.D. and it was already a prosperous wine-growing region in the 13th century.
Although Beaune is not primarily a tourist town but one centred on the wine industry, it nevertheless attracts a large amount of tourism. About five traditional smaller hotels are located within the city walls with around five chain hotels on the outskirts. Beaune is one of a number of towns in Europe asserting a key role in the invention of film; a number of murals and other tourist attractions reflect this. Technically Beaune is a commune in eastern France, a sub-prefecture of department 21, the Côte-d'Or department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
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Villefranche France
Город и бухта Вильфранш. Июнь 2017.
Saint Priest, Rhône, France
Ars sur Formans, France
La Basilica d'Ars, costruita alla fine del XIX secolo in estensione dell'antica chiesa, accoglie le reliquie del Santo Curato, Giovanni Maria Vianney, patrono di tutti i sacerdoti. Questa è oggi un luogo di pellegrinaggio che accoglie 450000 persone all'anno[2]. L'accoglienza del santuario, l'animazione spirituale e l'alloggiamento dei pellegrini sono oggi assicurati da parte della congregazione dei Benedettini del Sacro Cuore di Montmartre.
Museo della storia del Santo curato D'Ars, qui viene fatta rivivere secondo le abitudini dell'epoca, attraverso 17 scene e 35 personaggi di cera, la storia e i fatti più salienti della vita del Santo, per maggiori informazioni vedere sito.
BARGING THROUGH FRANCE PT 9 - BEAUJOLAIS
I arrived in Villaefranche, the capital of the Beaujolais on my old tug, the Regina to witness a very curious ceremony which I imagine must be unique. Conscription in France started in 1792 and the Wave or La Vague in French started in Villefranche 160 years ago. The men folk are split up into groups of conscripts for every ten years and they all get a different coloured ribbon to tie round their top hats. Recruits or first 10 years get green ribbons, yellow for guys between 30-40 years, red for between 50-60 yeas, blue 60-70 years, mauve 70-80 years, 80-90 years blue, white red and over 90 years you get to ride in a car.
The idea is that everyone carries a bunch of mimosa with red carnations in it and then they dance down the main street of Villefranche to commemorate their society and then they give their posies to the mothers, wives or girlfriends. Everybody has a good breakfast of lentils cooked with ham and Montbeliard sausage and lentils and washed down with litres of Beaujolais the wine of the terroir. Because everyone is well oiled before they start dancing down the street they all find it easy to form the endless wave. This society dedicates itself to doing good works and helping others when not dancing up and down the main drag.
Then we watch how the vines in the Beaujolais are pruned. A good pruner can do 800 metres of vines a day making 15,000 cuts. Vines are no good in damp ground I was told. Then I stayed with Isabelle at her bed and breakfast. She explained about terroir again and about how richly endowed the Beaujolais is with every kind of good produce. Isabelle's father had been a butcher and so she passed her exams to make all kinds of pate and sausages as a charcutiere. The famous Beaujolais Nouveau can be drunk at midnight on the third Wednesday of November. A very good marketing ploy, which works right around the world.
Madame Callow runs a village grocery and bar. She is famous for her omelettes. She told me she used three eggs per person but the trick was in the way you bear the eggs. All I can say is that her omelette was extremely good to eat.
The Chateau de la Chaise has the largest wine cellar in the Beaujolais. Then I visit Emmanuel, one of 6 brothers who farms the family farm where they have been for the last 150 years. Emmanuel has a special call for his cows and his horses which he demonstrates. He also lets his baby goats out of their pen for the first time. He explains that all the wine in the Beaujolais is made from the Gamay grape but it tastes different depending on which terroir it is grown. He demonstrates the difference between Beaujolais Village and Beaujolais which grow on fields not 500 yards distant.
A stone cutter who repairs stone church windows around the place shows how he makes mullions. He tells us the stone quarries are getting fewer and fewer. The mayor of Marcy is quite a card and probably a very good mayor. Under the town hall he has what he calls his decision room and he explains that when there is difference been the councillors, they all retire to his decision room in the cellar where it is not long before a decision is reached. The mayor had another very good bit of information about wine. It is that if the winemaker is a nice kind man the wine will be sweeter.
A couple of days later the mayor of Marcy demonstrated the model of the Chappe semaphore which stands on the hill about his town. He told me that it was possible to send a message from Paris to Toulon, the length of France in twenty minutes.
I visit a gentleman who has built his own chateau. He proudly shows me over his pile and then he shows me how he tastes wine. After that we go to the Beaujolais museum where they have an enormous mechanical organ from the turn of the century which has one row of bottles filled to different levels with Beaujolais which are struck by hammers to make the sound of bells.
Lyon France Frankreich 21.10.2015
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