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Impressions & Souvenirs   Toulouse

Impressions & Souvenirs, Toulouse

 17 Reviews  I know very little about Toulouse, only been there once for one day. The other day, I was listening to Claude Nougaro's song, which is called Toulouse. So much emotion. It is a love declaration from... 

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Garonne river & banks   Toulouse

Garonne river & banks, Toulouse

 13 Reviews  Les quais, tels que nous les connaissons aujourd'hui datent du XIX° siècle, lorsque les digues furent érigées pour proteger la ville des crues du fleuve. C'est une agréable promenade familliale depuis... 

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Architecture civilian   Toulouse

Architecture civilian, Toulouse

 24 Reviews  On the inside looking East after entry from the West, one faces two architectural creations. The lower part is the Portal of Nicholas Bachelier (1546), the town’s great architect, and above it a... 

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Architecture religious   Toulouse

Architecture religious, Toulouse

 11 Reviews  Au milieu du XI e siècle, l'église devenant trop petite pour accueillir les nombreux pèlerins qui faisaient halte à Toulouse sur le chemin de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, on commença, sous la... 

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Arts & Museums   Toulouse

Arts & Museums, Toulouse

 6 Reviews  Sous les arcades, le peintre Moretti a réalisé, à grand frais une "galerue" que l'on ne remarque quère, car elle est peinte sous le plafond, alors que l'espace est constamment encombré par les tables... 

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History/Histoire civilian   Toulouse

History/Histoire civilian, Toulouse

 5 Reviews  Toulouse à été construite au premier siècle. C'est sur une ville gallo-romaine, que la présente ville s'est développé. Dans les vieilles rues de la ville historique, vous pouvez voir de nombreuses... 

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Urbanisme   Toulouse

Urbanisme, Toulouse

 6 Reviews  Progressivement, Toulouse opère une mutation importante de son centre-ville. La diminution du trafic automobile amorcée grâce aux travaux effectués autour du Capitole dans le cadre de l’opération «... 

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History/Histoire religious   Toulouse

History/Histoire religious, Toulouse

 2 Reviews  Apres la Revolution Francaise, en 1812, suite a la suppression, en 1790, des communautes religieuses, et aux requisitions militaires, l'enclos des Jacobins est transforme en quartier d'artillerie.... 

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The Origins of Realism in Cave Art at Pech-Merle

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There is some convincing evidence that ancient cave artists blew their pigments onto porous wall surface from reeds, as their operative technic. They did not have brushes and the only other method would be to shape "chalks" from stones and charcoal sticks that could be rubbed on surfaces. However, that method could not be easily blended with mordants and binders to make the result durable. With a blowpipe, pigments and binders could be premixed. This hand seen in the cave is the beginning of "realism" in art aw well as demonstrating the above technic. It is also the forerunner of the silhouette. This "breakthrough" must have generated awe in all viewers (and symbolic meaning).

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Millau

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Millau is a small city to the foot of the causse of the Larzac.In border of the Share, it is the capital of the glove making, and the center of expedition of the famous cheese of Roquefort. Obligated passage on the routes of vacations of all those that live in the center of France, it is also, the days of big departures, a famous black point for the road circulation. Close to the old bridge you can see this curious construction over to the of the river.Millau became famous thanks to Jose Bove, the peasant union militant, who lives close to there, and that had participated to the destruction of the restaurant Mac-Donald of this city.

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Mirepoix

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Although Mirepoix has, with its Lords, marked history at the time of the crusade against the albigeois, little material trace subsist. The lords of Levy, faithful of Simon of Montfort, had become Lords of Mirepoix, following the dispossession of the family of Mirepoix. The bastide is founded in 1279, after a flooding due to the rupture of the dam of Puivert. La porte d'Aval (the door of downstream) is a square tower. It possessed a harrow of which one sees the grooves again. It dates of the end of the XIV th or the XV th century.In the medieval downtown, a place surrounded with one-story houses, supported on pillars of wood.The whole forms a gallery edged of stores that offer a charm a lot of caractérisrique of Mirepoix. A medieval week is organized in July.

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Foix

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Foix is a small city to the foot of the Pyrenees. Surrounded with high mountains, it is, on the road that leads to Andorra, an obligatory stage. To the middle age, the counts of Foix reigned on the whole region. Quarrelsome and impetuous, Gaston Phoebus the count of Foix reigned without sharing of the Mediterranean until the middle of the Pyrenees. At the time of the crusade of the albigeois, the Cathars were numerous in the region, and Foix, as other cities of the south of France known the Inquisition and the repression.

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Cordes en Ciel

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Cordes en Ciel is a medieval village, perched on a rocky peg. One assigns him a history important Cathar. Probably hardly more that the other villages of the region. It doesn't remove anything to beauty from this village to the beautiful houses of stone shut in by a surrounding wall to the numerous monumental doors. The village, forbidden to the vehicles of the non residents visits itself on foot (it is a little sporty, steep bus). The paved streets permit to admire very beautiful houses of XIV, XVS and XVIS th centuries. In top of the village, a very beautiful covered market and its deep puit of 120 meters. The tourist will visit the church St Michel (organ) and one will appreciate the view on the vineyards of controlled appellation of the wines of Gaillac.

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Albi

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Albi is sister of Toulouse, one recovers the red brick, the houses of corondage, there. In the countries of the center city, one recognizes the southern languor, and the inhabitants who discuss, seated before their house. As in Toulouse, Albi is a ' city rose', the houses are constructed in bricks of terracotta. It gives to the city its cordial aspect. Nearly each house of the old city to sheltered a character, a history... But Albi hides its treasures: an entry of particular hotel can be concealed to the bottom of a dead end. Omnipresent, the bell-tower of the cathedral St.-Cecile dominates the city. Temperate, imposing, the Eveche is a building that didn't benefit a no flourish. It shelters the Toulouse-Lautrec museum. The Eveche dominates the Tarn, that one can admire since a terrace that gives on one rooms of the museum dedicated to Toulouse-Lautrec. It is pleasant to go for a...

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The Volvestre

by Klod5

The Volvestre is a natural region in the valley of the Arize, surrounded with small hills. The villages are numerous, more beautiful the some that the other: Carbonne, very close to the Garonne (Covered market, church...) Rieux-Volvestre (one of the most beautiful villages of France) Montesquieux-Volveste (a bastide in breve, covered market and walled church) Daumazan on Arize (very beautiful place, and castle)... The farming tourism has been developed strongly, and there are many lodgings in this region. One can practice the fishing, hunt, there many sports...

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To the foot of the Pyrenees, the Comminges

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In the region Midi-Pyrenees, the natural regions, former barony inheritance, exist. The Comminges he spreads Muret (or St. -Elix le Chateau) until the foot of the mountains. It is a region of cultures of the cereals in plains, and of raising, in the small hills. Many villages and bastides have an obvious tourist appeal: Cazeres, Martres-Tolosannes, Alan, Le Fousseret, St.-Gaudens.... The tourist will be able to practice the fishing there, hunt, horsemanship, the water sports and of veil, and also the research of the mushrooms in the numerous forests.

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Villemur sur Tarn - The suspended bridge

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The rises in the water level of the Tarn are abrupt and violent. Until the XIX th century the bridges were regularly taken away by the violence of the streams. The progress of the engineers of this century have permitted to construct, in every village, of the metallic bridges, of this type, that didn't risk to be taken away at the time of the abrupt rises of waters, since they didn't have any batteries anymore in the course of the stream.

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Villemur sur Tarn

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In the North of the Haute-Garonne, the small city of Villemur-sur-Tarn is full of tourist appeals. You will be able to admire its monuments: The Tour de Defense (Tower of Defense) The Grenier du Roi (King's Attic )The suspended bridge You will also take advantage of the lodgings and rooms and tables of host The Office of the Tourism is situated in the Tower of Defense

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Q:  We continue to plan a trip that includes Paris and, prominently, the Drodogne region. We plan to head from the Dordogne to 4-6... 

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