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Caen: the millennium of the city of 100 steeples
The capital of Lower Normandy celebrates its millennium in 2025! Indissociable from the historic figure of William the Conqueror, the medieval past of this town in Calvados is still very much alive. The castle, with its imposing ramparts, was one of ... ...
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The United Nations General Assembly decided to declare 2025 the International Year of Glacier Preservation. In 1786, the ascent of the roof of Europe was both a challenge and a scientific exploration. Today, more than ever, this glacial area that is ... ...
+ View featureCôtes d'Armor: the island of Saint Gildas celebrates the pardon of the horses
The pardon of the horses has been held on the island of Saint-Gildas off the coast of Penvénan (Côtes-d'Armor) every June since the 18th century. Its origins date back to a pandemic that decimated horses on the mainland but spared those on the ... ...
+ View featureThe Transhimalayenne on a Royal Enfield motorbike
Our photographer Bertrand GARDEL invites you on a unique adventure on a Royal Enfield Himalayan 400cc motorbike through the majestic peaks of the Trans-Himalayan, one of the highest roads in the world! This grandiose journey of ten stages begins in ... ...
+ View featureDubourdieu: excellence since 1800 in Arcachon
The Dubourdieu shipyard, based in Gujan Mestras and labelled a living heritage company, has been the pride of the Arcachon basin since it was founded in 1800 by Louis Dubourdieu. This is the oldest French shipyard still in operation. Built entirely ... ...
+ View featureEdelweiss: Queen of the Alps
The emblem of the Alpine peaks, and of Switzerland in particular, edelweiss, literally ‘white nobility’, has acclimatised over thousands of years to the extreme conditions that prevail at altitudes between 1700 and 3400 metres. Native to the ... ...
+ View featureAtelier d'Offard: exceptional wallpaper!
Trained at the Beaux-Arts, François-Xavier Richard founded the Atelier d'Offard in 1999. Located in Touraine, he is now perpetuating the wallpaper skills of the great 18th and 19th century manufacturers. This living heritage company reproduces ... ...
+ View featureManila: Father Dauchez, 25 years working alongside street children
For the past 25 years, Father Matthieu Dauchez and his foundation Anak-Tnk (‘A Bridge for Children’) have been helping lost Filipino children in the capital. Their aim is to restore dignity and hope to as many of these children as possible, who ... ...
+ View featureTransylvania: addicted to Dracula!
Count Dracula is a fictional character born of the unbridled imagination of the British writer Bram Stocker at the end of the 19th century. The novel was first published in 1897. Dracula is nonetheless based on a very real figure, Vlad Tepes, known ... ...
+ View featureThe world's most astonishing lighthouses
There are a wide variety of lighthouses around the world. These maritime signalling devices are distinguished by their originality of shape, colour, material... Historic or contemporary, huge or tiny, they often stand watch over breathtaking ... ...
+ View featureCoastal erosion: A phenomenon under surveillance by Francis CORMON
Normandy is particularly exposed to the retreat of the coastline, which endangers homes located along the coastline. Thus, over the last 50 years, 30km2 of land have been eaten away. It is enough to observe the blockhouse of Sainte-Marguerite, which ... ...
+ View featureVietnam: Con Dao, from prison to paradise by Philippe BODY
The small archipelago of Con Dao is becoming one of the most popular and confidential destinations in Southeast Asia. A little corner of paradise for islands that were for decades rather a symbol of hell on earth. It was there that the French ... ...
+ View featureValence hoists the colors by Hervé HUGHES
The third largest city in Spain, Valencia has something to surprise! Proud of the futuristic curves of the City of Arts and Sciences imagined by Calatrava, of the architectural riches of the historic center including the Mercat Central, an ... ...
+ View featureVietnam: Happiness Road by Philippe BODY
The old colonial road 4C was baptized by its residents the Route du Bonheur, for having brought one of the wildest regions of North Vietnam out of isolation. The highest road in the country crosses the province of Ha Giang in a few thousand ... ...
+ View featureGlasgow Arty by Grégory GERAULT
The recent reopening of the Burrel Collection, the Mackintosh style, the vibrant pulse of a city reinventing itself: three good reasons to spend a weekend in Glasgow. Glasgow has a false air of an American city, the streets go up and down crossing ... ...
+ View featureSeven Islands: Last refuge for puffins by Jean-Michel SOTTO
Welcome to the Sept-Îles archipelago, an ornithological paradise in northern Brittany. A day at sea aboard the sailboat Sant C'hireg to get as close as possible to the only colony in France of Gannets, but also to take advantage of the last days of ... ...
+ View featureLouis XI: The construction of a centralized power
He became king in 1461 and reigned until his death in 1483. Louis XI is often wrongly regarded as a Machiavellian and political king, known for his cunning and intrigues. Above all, he was involved in several peace and war treaties during his reign, ... ...
+ View featureManufacture de Longwy: The song of enamels by Vincent DAMARIN
Founded in 1798 by the Boch family, the Manufacture des Emaux de Longwy has been defending the excellence of Lorraine's know-how for over two centuries. Its reputation grew when Napoleon Ist decided to entrust the workshops with the realization of ... ...
+ View featureProtectors of the wild Rhône by Denis PALANQUE
The Rhône, 812km long, has its source in Switzerland in the Saint Gothard massif, at an altitude of 1753m. It crosses Lake Geneva before arriving in France and flowing via the Camargue delta into the Mediterranean Sea. Between Lyon and Switzerland, ... ...
+ View featureGardens of the Riviera: Between nature and elegance by Bertrand RIEGER
Verdant gems on the Mediterranean coasts, the gardens of the Riviera in France and Ventimiglia offer an enchanted getaway in lush havens of peace. From the sumptuous parks of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, where French elegance reigns supreme, to ... ...
+ View featureNancy Thermal: Back to basics by Patrick ESCUDERO
To find the existence of a thermal establishment in Nancy, we must go back to 1913 when the National Academy of Medicine granted the authorization to the city to exploit the hot spring discovered in 1909. Drawn 800m below the surface, making it the ... ...
+ View featureMontreal: Open-air museum by Philippe RENAULT
Today there are hundreds of them and their number continues to increase. Montreal has become a go-to destination for street art featuring monumental murals. From graffiti to stencil, from mosaic to collage, from installations to murals, street art ... ...
+ View featureCroatia: The Secrets of the Golden Horn by Bertrand RIEGER
A navigation to discover islands as magnificent as they are unknown aboard the Ave Maria on the Dalmatian coast from Dubrovnik to Split, two jewels of cities stamped Unesco. It all starts with the discovery of Dubrovnik with its marvels of ... ...
+ View featureIn the footsteps of William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England
Following in the footsteps of William the Conqueror in Normandy is an authentic journey that reveals a string of castles, abbeys, bocages and strikes far from the tourist classics. It is to relive the incredible epic of a Norman who rose to the rank ... ...
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