St-Paul de Vence in the south of France
St-Paul de Vence in the South of France is one of the best preserved and prettiest medieval villages in all of Europe. We're going to take you on a walk straight through the middle of St-Paul on the main pedestrian lane from one end of town to the other and later working to show you all the little side streets. Located on the Cote d'Azur along the French Riviera in Provence, this village is one of the prettiest in Europe. The cobblestone lanes here are among the finest that you will ever see.
When you reach the far end of the main lane you exit through another gateway arch and then there's a staircase that leads your right up onto the wall with a lovely viewing platform where you can see across the distant landscape.
The walks round the walls are in part wider, and the small gardens of the houses sloping down to them, with the dark foliage and golden fruit of their orange groves, form a beautiful foreground to the lovely views that are visible off in the distance in every direction.
Saint-Paul de Vence's town wall dates from the 16th century as we see it today and it hugs the contours of the rocky spur on which the village stands, forming a 1 km perimeter that has undergone only slight modifications since the 16th century.
We have created many more movies about this area, the Côte d'Azur, the French Riviera that you can find on our channel, so have a look. You'll see programs about Cannes and Monaco, Monte Carlo, St-Paul, Vence, Villefrance, all around through the region including Antibes, and we really enjoy using Nice as our home base to explore this entire region.
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Palais Galliera
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) Palais Galliera
The Palais Galliera, also formally known as the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, and formerly known as Musée Galliera, is a museum of fashion and fashion history located at 10, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is open daily except Mondays and public holidays; an admission fee is charged and varies depending on the exhibition programmed. The museum has no permanent displays due to conservation issues. The museum opened its doors again 28 September 2013 after being closed for major renovation.
Palais Galliera is one of the 14 City of Paris museums that have been incorporated since 1 January 2013 in the public institution Paris Musées. The Duke of Galliera was a partner in the urban planning firm Thome & Cie, and owned a large parcel of land in one of the finest neighborhoods in Paris. Upon his death in 1876, his wife, Marie Brignole-Sale de Ferrari, the Duchesse de Galliera, became the heir of his immense fortune. The duchess decided that she wanted to use the land to build a museum, at her expense, to hold their works of arts. According to her wishes, a notary prepared a deed of gift to give the land parcel to the French state. However, after the gift was registered and accepted by presidential decree on 30 August 1879, it was discovered that the notary had made a serious error. Rather than donating the parcel to France, the deed was written as a gift to the City of Paris. Unable to change the deed at this point, the gift remained as written. Construction of the museum began in 1879 on an opulent design by architect Léon Ginain, who also supervised its construction. In 1884, the Duchess gave 6.5 million francs to the City of Paris for work already done as well as funds necessary to complete it.
On 22 June 1886, Jules Grévy and Georges Clemenceau convened the Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic and adopted a law expelling any person who was a direct heir of a royalist dynasty that had reigned in France. The Duchess Galliera, who had descended from the House of Orléans, was outraged by the law, no less because she had already donated the Hôtel Matignon to France. Unable to revoke her gift of the new museum, she abandoned the rest of her planned legacy to Paris. Thus, her collection of paintings and fine art were given to Genoa, Italy, where they are now displayed at the Palazzo Rosso and Palazzo Bianco.
The Palais Galliera faces Brignole Galliera Square, immediately north of the Palais de Tokyo and one block east of the Musée Guimet. The architect Léon Ginain based his design on a palace that the Duchess Galliera owned in Genoa. The building is faced in cut stone in the Italian Renaissance style supported by an underframe of steel, constructed by the Eiffel Company. The mosaic floors and domes are the work of Giandomenico Facchina (1826–1904). The statues on the façade that fronts Avenue du President Wilson represent Painting by Henri Chapu, Architecture by Jules Thomas, and Sculpture by Peter Cavelier. In 1916, a fountain was built in front of the museum.
Since 1977, the City of Paris has operated the Palais Galliera as the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, a permanent museum devoted to fashion. It displays exhibits of French fashion design and costume from the eighteenth century to the present day. The museum is closed in between exhibitions. The museum's holdings contain about 70,000 items, and are organized as follows:
Costumes - from the 18th century to the present, including clothes owned by Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVII, and the Empress Josephine, the dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and displays of fashions by the leading 19th and 20th century designers including Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, Anne-Marie Beretta, Louise Chéruit, Sonia Delaunay, Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, Mariano Fortuny, Jean Paul Gaultier, Givenchy, Paul Poiret, Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent, and Elsa Schiaparelli.
Undergarments - an excellent collection of slips, corsets, crinolines, etc.
Accessories - including jewelry, canes, hats, fans, purses, scarves, gloves (including a pair owned by Sarah Bernhardt), parasols, and umbrellas.
Graphic arts and photography - stamps, drawings, photography, advertisements, etc.
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Parisian Arcades
Today there remain only about 20 of the 150 arcades that existed in Paris in the 1850s. These famous arcades are used by Parisians purely by chance, by necessity when they want to take a short cut or, more often, simply for pleasure.
Most of them are on the right bank of the Seine, close to the Grands Boulevards. Forerunners of the shopping arcades, they were built in the late 18th century to house the shops used by the middle classes of the capital. There were often used as a waiting area for carriages and coaches, which is why there are so many clocks there.
Lovers of antiques, little tea shops and collectors of all types...the Parisian arcades are just for you. You can also meet up with the purists there, as the people who choose to set up shop here are usually lovers of their work....much to the delight of the real aesthetes.
It's something of a paradox: the Parisian arcades are places that exist out of time and yet are still very much up with the times as fashion designers often set up their first showrooms here. They may be elegant, magnificent or even rather sad...but they are a reminder of a forgotten era and still carry the scent of yesteryear.
One of the most sophisticated is, without a doubt, the Galerie Vivienne which has three entrances, one in rue Vivienne, one in Rue des Petits Champs and another in rue de la Banque. The arrival of Jean-Paul Gaultier in 1986 turned it definitively into a centre for Paris fashion. But just like a grand old lady, it has remained very stylish and peaceful.
Right next door is Galerie Vivienne's competitor, the Passage Colbert. Less commercial but very luxurious, it was bought by the French National Library and houses a number of institutions linked to culture and art. At the far end is the perfect place for you to go for dinner: the Grand Colbert, a typical Parisian brasserie.
With its diagonal pattern of black and white tiles, the Verot Dodat passageway gives an illusion of depth and should also be visited. One of its entrances can be found at n°19 rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau. Completely restored in 1997, it is the most charming of Paris' covered passageways.
We'll end with the oldest one, the Panoramas arcade which connects the Grands Boulevards and the Grange Batelière. Its glass roof provides daylight and it is the home of stamp collectors.
Others like the Verdeau, Grand-Cerf, Molière and Vendôme arcades...each have their own individual personality, charm and clientele.
The Parisian arcades, these little walkways between buildings, have kept their mystery....few can say where they begin and where they end...it's up to you to find out!
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Le projet des Franciscaines : l'imaginaire à l'oeuvre
L'imaginaire à l’œuvre tient lieu de programme d'action pour les Franciscaines, lieu culturel d'un nouveau genre dont les travaux s'achèveront en 2020. Dans cet ancien lieu de culte, reconfiguré à la mesure d'un projet culturel, chacun sera invité à laisser son imaginaire circuler pour vivre une expérience inédite, ouverte à tous les possibles. Méditer, se recueillir, se recentrer sur soi : à ces gestes répétés depuis plus d'un siècle par les religieuses qui occupèrent le site avant de le céder à la ville en 2012, le lieu associe désormais : s'informer, se parler, s'écouter, se cultiver, découvrir, s'enrichir, traîner, se distraire, à travers des parcours ajustés à chaque profil de visiteurs.