1. Chateau de Vaux-le-VicomteMaincy The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. Built between 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV, the château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. At Vaux-le-Vicomte, the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on a large-scale project for the first time. Their collaboration marked the beginning of the Louis XIV style combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. The garden's pronounced visual axis is an example of this style. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Graffitis de prisonniers du 18e siècle au château de Brest
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La Bataille de la Somme, une histoire de famille
Ces mots ne sont pas de Stéphanie mais de son grand-père, écrits dans ce même endroit, dans les tranchées, il y a 100 ans, pendant la bataille de la Somme, événement majeur de la Grande Guerre. Ces textes, elle les a découverts en 1988.
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6th TravelVlog: Fontainebleau Bouldering
People have told us that with a toddler it won't be possible to sport climb but bouldering should still be fine. We didn't believe them and had to figure it out the hard way. Sport climbing with a moving child is almost impossible (except if you bring a third person to the crag).
Well, Fredrik and I, we are really not the outdoor boulderers but we thought we might just give it a really good try, going all in, so we decided to spend three weeks in Fontainebleau forest and boulder as much as possible.
What can we say... First, Fontainebleau is probably the most amazing place on earth! Second, Bouldering with a toddler works perfectly fine! Third, the top out's are at first very scary but you do get used to it!
Places to see in ( Aosta - Italy ) Arco Onorario d'Augusto
Places to see in ( Aosta - Italy ) Arco Onorario d'Augusto
The Arch of Augustus (in French Arc d'Auguste) is a monument in the city of Aosta, northern Italy. It was erected in 25 BC on the occasion of the Roman victory over the Salassi and was the work of Aulus Terentius Varro Murena. It is located at the end of the decumanus maximus, a little distance from the Bourg Saint-Ours (quarter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Ursus) and from the eastern entrance of the city wall (the Porta Prætoria).
Constructed from conglomerate, the arch has a single vault, with a height to the keystone of 11.4 metres. Its span is a barrel vault, constituting an extension in width of a round arch. In the monument, various styles can be recognised: The ten engaged columns which decorate its facade and its sides culminate in Corinthian capitals, while the entablature, adorned with metopes and triglyphs, is of the Doric order.
In the Medieval period, it came to be called the Saint-Voût (French for Holy Arch) from an image of Jesus which was located in the same place. During the twelfth century, the arch contained the home of a local noble family and in 1318 a small fortification was built inside it, designed for a corps of crossbowmen. In 1716, because of the numerous leaks that were compromising the integrity of the monument, the attic that previously crowned the arch was replaced with a slate roof.
The arch's modern appearance is the result of a final intervention for restoration and consolidation which occurred in 1912 under the direction of Ernesto Schiaparelli. The wooden crucifix displayed below the vault is a copy of the one which was placed there in 1449 as a votive offering against the flooding of the river Buthier, which flows a little to the east. The original crucifix is now housed in the Museum of Aosta Cathedral's Treasures.
( Aosta - Italy ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Aosta . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Aosta - Italy
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Archeologie in China
Willemijn ging voor haar studie archeologie naar het archeologische paradijs China. Ze vertelt over haar onvergetelijke belevingen.