Arles: Cloître Saint-Trophime (Cloister of St. Trophime), France Provence [HD] (videoturysta.eu)
[EN] The Cloister of St. Trophime, located on the Place de la Republique, was built nearby to the cathedral in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The most beautiful is the internal gallery, richly decorated. It is interesting that the entrance to the cloister is located not in the church, but from external doors in the Place de la Republique.
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[FR] Le cloître de Saint-Trophime, situé sur la place de la République, a été construit à proximité de la cathédrale à la fin du XIIe siècle. La plus belle est la galerie interne, richement décorée. Il est intéressant de constater que l'entrée du cloître est située non pas dans l'église, mais depuis les portes extérieures de la place de la République.
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[PL] Klasztor św. Trofima, znajdujący się na placu Republiki, został wybudowany obok katedry na przełomie XII i XIII wieku. Najpiękniejsze w nim są wewnętrzne krużganki, bogato zdobione. Co ciekawe, wejście do klasztoru nie znajduje się w kościele, lecz od strony placu Republiki.
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Paris Worldwide : Virée tourisme et shopping autour de Montorgueil
Spa tendance, pâtisseries d'exception, tables en vue : à quelques pas des Halles, ce quartier historique fourmille de bonnes adresses.
A chic spa, dreamy pastry shops, trend-setting restaurants... This historic neighbourhood, just a few steps from Les Halles, is all the rage.
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Place Vendome
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Place Vendome
Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. It is the starting point of the Rue de la Paix. Its regular architecture by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and pedimented screens canted across the corners give the rectangular Place Vendôme the aspect of an octagon. The original Vendôme Column at the centre of the square was erected by Napoleon I to commemorate the Battle of Austerlitz; it was torn down on 16 May 1871, by decree of the Paris Commune, but subsequently re-erected and remains a prominent feature on the square today.
Place Vendôme was laid out in 1702 as a monument to the glory of the armies of Louis XIV, the Grand Monarque and called Place des Conquêtes, to be renamed Place Louis le Grand, when the conquests proved temporary; an over life-size equestrian statue of the king was set up in its centre, donated by the city authorities; this was by François Girardon (1699) and is supposed to have been the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece. It was destroyed in the French Revolution; however, there is a small version in the Louvre. This led to the popular joke that while Henri IV dwelled among the people by the Pont Neuf, and Louis XIII among the aristocrats of the Place des Vosges, Louis XIV preferred the company of the tax farmers in the Place Vendôme; each reflecting the group they had favoured in life.
The site of the square was formerly the hôtel of César, duc de Vendôme, the illegitimate son of Henry IV and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées. Hardouin-Mansart bought the building and its gardens, with the idea of converting it into building lots as a profitable speculation. The plan did not materialize, and Louis XIV's minister of finance, Louvois, purchased the piece of ground, with the object of building a square, modelled on the successful Place des Vosges of the previous century. Louvois came into financial difficulties and nothing came of his project, either. After his death, the king purchased the plot and commissioned Hardouin-Mansart to design a housefront that the buyers of plots round the square would agree to adhere to. When the state finances ran low, the financier John Law took on the project, built himself a residence behind one of the façades, and the square was complete by 1720, just as his paper-money Mississippi bubble burst.
The original column was started in 1806 at Napoleon's direction and completed in 1810. It was modelled after Trajan's Column, to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz; its veneer of 425 spiralling bas-relief bronze plates was made out of cannon taken from the combined armies of Europe, according to his propaganda (the usual figure given is hugely exaggerated: 180 cannon were actually captured at Austerlitz.) These plates were designed by the sculptor Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret and executed by a team of sculptors including Jean-Joseph Foucou, Louis-Simon Boizot, François Joseph Bosio, Lorenzo Bartolini, Claude Ramey, François Rude, Corbet, Clodion, Julie Charpentier, and Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel. A statue of Napoleon, bare-headed, crowned with laurels and holding a sword in his right hand and a globe surmounted with a statue of Victory (as in Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker) in his left hand, was placed atop the column.
At the centre of the square's long sides, Hardouin-Mansart's range of Corinthian pilasters breaks forward under a pediment, to create palace-like fronts. The arcading of the formally rusticated ground floors does not provide an arcaded passageway as at Place des Vosges. The architectural linking of the windows from one floor to the next, and the increasing arch of their windowheads, provide an upward spring to the horizontals formed by ranks of windows. Originally the square was accessible by a single street and preserved an aristocratic quiet, except when the annual fair was held there. Then Napoléon opened the rue de la Paix, and the 19th century filled the Place Vendôme with traffic. It was only after the opening in 1875 of the Palais Garnier on the other side of the rue de la Paix that the centre of the Parisian fashionable life started gravitating around the rue de la Paix and the Place Vendôme.
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Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs, which form a veritable labyrinth beneath the very heart of Paris, were created in the galleries of the former quarries whose stone was used to build the capital.
Situated twenty metres below ground, the ossuary contains the remains of approximately six million Parisians, transferred there gradually between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries as graveyards were being closed because of the risk they posed to public health. The first of these was the cimetière des Innocents graveyard in 1786 in what is now the district of Les Halle.
In the long maze of dark galleries and narrow passages, visitors can see a tableau of death with bones arranged in a macabre display of high Romantic taste. The alexandrine verse Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort [Halt, this is the realm of Death ] above the entrance to the ossuary is just one of an extensive series of maxims, poems and other sacred and profane passages giving pause for thought during the tour. This unusual site movingly brings the history of the Parisian people back to life and takes visitors on a timeless journey.
A unique site in former quarries
The Catacombs represent the interface between the history of Paris and the Earth's geological evolution. Forty-five million years ago, Paris and the surrounding area were covered by a tropical sea. Dozens of metres of sediment accumulated on the sea bed, forming over lime the limestone deposits visible in the Catacombs today. Geologists worldwide call this period in the history of the world the Lutetian period, alter Lutetia, the Gallo-Roman name for Paris.
As early as the first century AD, the Gallo-Romans were using this limestone to build Lutetia. From the thirteenth century onwards, the open quarries on the slopes along the river Bièvre were replaced by underground workings to supply the huge quantities of stone required to build Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre and city ramparts. The supporting pillars, bellshaped roof cavities, quarrymen's footbath and Port-Mahon sculpture gallery, all of which can be seen on the tour, bear witness to the fact that mining activity was carried out at the site over the centuries.
The quarrying left. empty areas used to create the eighteenth-century ossuary which became the Paris Catacombs.
Notable dead historical figures
The bones from several graveyards and churches in Paris undoubtedly include the remains of many famous names from previous centuries including, amongst others, the writers François Rabelais (between 1483 and 1494 -1553), Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1698) and Charles Perrault (1628 - 1703), the sculptor François Girardon (1628 - 1715), the painter Simon Vouet (I590 - 1649), the architects Salomon de Brosse (1571-1626), Claude Perrault (1613 - 1688) and also Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646 - 1708).
During the Revolution, people were buried directly in the Catacombs, including members of the Swiss Guard killed in the storming of the Tuileries palace on 10 August 1792 and victims of the massacres in September 1792. The remains of victims of the guillotine transferred there from their original burial pits include Lavoisier (1743 - 1794), Madame Elisabeth (1764 - 1794), Camille and Lucile Desmoulins (1760 - 1794 and 1771 - 1794), Danton (1759 - 1794) and Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
Catacombs Paris
The Catacombs, which form a veritable labyrinth beneath the very heart of Paris, were created in the galleries of the former quarries whose stone was used to build the capital.
Situated twenty metres below ground, the ossuary contains the remains of approximately six million Parisians, transferred there gradually between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries as graveyards were being closed because of the risk they posed to public health. The first of these was the cimetière des Innocents graveyard in 1786 in what is now the district of Les Halle.
In the long maze of dark galleries and narrow passages, visitors can see a tableau of death with bones arranged in a macabre display of high Romantic taste. The alexandrine verse Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort [Halt, this is the realm of Death ] above the entrance to the ossuary is just one of an extensive series of maxims, poems and other sacred and profane passages giving pause for thought during the tour. This unusual site movingly brings the history of the Parisian people back to life and takes visitors on a timeless journey.
A unique site in former quarries
The Catacombs represent the interface between the history of Paris and the Earth's geological evolution. Forty-five million years ago, Paris and the surrounding area were covered by a tropical sea. Dozens of metres of sediment accumulated on the sea bed, forming over lime the limestone deposits visible in the Catacombs today. Geologists worldwide call this period in the history of the world the Lutetian period, alter Lutetia, the Gallo-Roman name for Paris.
As early as the first century AD, the Gallo-Romans were using this limestone to build Lutetia. From the thirteenth century onwards, the open quarries on the slopes along the river Bièvre were replaced by underground workings to supply the huge quantities of stone required to build Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre and city ramparts. The supporting pillars, bellshaped roof cavities, quarrymen's footbath and Port-Mahon sculpture gallery, all of which can be seen on the tour, bear witness to the fact that mining activity was carried out at the site over the centuries.
The quarrying left. empty areas used to create the eighteenth-century ossuary which became the Paris Catacombs.
Notable dead historical figures
The bones from several graveyards and churches in Paris undoubtedly include the remains of many famous names from previous centuries including, amongst others, the writers François Rabelais (between 1483 and 1494 -1553), Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1698) and Charles Perrault (1628 - 1703), the sculptor François Girardon (1628 - 1715), the painter Simon Vouet (I590 - 1649), the architects Salomon de Brosse (1571-1626), Claude Perrault (1613 - 1688) and also Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646 - 1708).
During the Revolution, people were buried directly in the Catacombs, including members of the Swiss Guard killed in the storming of the Tuileries palace on 10 August 1792 and victims of the massacres in September 1792. The remains of victims of the guillotine transferred there from their original burial pits include Lavoisier (1743 - 1794), Madame Elisabeth (1764 - 1794), Camille and Lucile Desmoulins (1760 - 1794 and 1771 - 1794), Danton (1759 - 1794) and Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
Ian Scott, Director UK & Ireland Office, Dubai Department of Tourism - TravelBiz.ie
Gerry Benson, Publisher and Editor, TravelBiz.ie talks to Ian Scott, Director UK & Ireland Office, Dubai Department of Tourism at World Travel Market 2012 in London.
Appart'City Toulouse Diagora Labège - Hotel in Labege, France
FR: L'Appart'city Toulouse est situé aux abords de Toulouse, avec un accès facile à l'autoroute A61. Il propose des appartements modernes et un parking est disponible sur place. Le stade de Toulouse se trouve à 10 km.
ES: El Appart’city Toulouse se encuentra en las afueras del centro de Toulouse y está cerca de la autopista A61. Ofrece alojamiento en apartamentos modernos, así como aparcamiento. El estadio de Toulouse está a 10 km.
DE: Das Appart’city Toulouse liegt außerhalb des Zentrums von Toulouse und bietet eine gute Anbindung an die Autobahn A61. Es bietet moderne Apartments und Parkplätze an der Unterkunft. Das Stadion von Toulouse befindet sich 10 km entfernt.
NL: Het Appart'city Toulouse biedt moderne appartementen en privéparkeergelegenheid. Het ligt aan de rand van het centrum van Toulouse, vlak bij de snelweg A61 en op 10 km van het stadion van Toulouse.
IT: Situato alle porte del centro di Tolosa e a 10 km dallo stadio della città, l'Appart’City Toulouse offre un comodo accesso all'autostrada A61, e vanta moderni appartamenti e un parcheggio in loco.
PT: O Appart’city Toulouse situa-se fora do centro de Toulouse, com fácil acesso à Auto-estrada A61. A propriedade disponibiliza acomodação em apartamentos modernos e o estacionamento está disponível no local. O Estádio de Toulouse fica a 10 km.
ZH: Appart’city Toulouse酒店毗邻图卢兹（Toulouse）市中心，可方便去往A61高速公路，提供现代化的公寓住宿和停车场。图卢兹体育场（Toulouse Stadium）距离酒店有10公里。 Toulouse Diagora Laberge酒店的公寓配套完善，设有空调、私人浴室、休息区以及带微波炉和洗碗机的小厨房。 酒店提供每日欧陆式早餐。酒店还提供洗衣服务和24小时前台。
RU: Апарт-отель Appart’city Toulouse расположен недалеко от центра города Тулуза. Отсюда легко добраться до автомагистрали А61. К услугам гостей современные апартаменты и парковка на территории. В 10 км находится стадион Тулузы.
SV: Appart'City Toulouse ligger utanför centrala Toulouse och erbjuder enkel tillgång till motorväg A61. Här erbjuds moderna lägenheter och parkering på plats. Toulouse-stadion ligger 10 km bort.
AR: تقع Appart’city Toulouse على مشارف وسط مدينة تولوز، وتوفر سهولة الوصول إلى الطريق السريع A61، وتوفر شقق حديثة ومواقف للسيارات في الموقع، كما يبعد ملعب تولوز مسافة 10 كم.
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Hommage à Dame Nature
Ce film est composé de photos prises au cours de mes balades matinales dans la nature, lorsque les premiers rayons de soleil inondent les fleurs couvertes de rosée.
Parcourir notre Dame Nature en immortalisant sa beauté est pour moi une source de fraîcheur et de joie dans le chaos qui règne en ce monde et je suis heureuse de la partager avec vous.
Ces photos sont accompagnées par le prélude en C Major de Bach, par Morning Mood de Grieg et par l' Hiver des 4 saisons de Vivaldi
Cathy
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