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Avignon is one of the major cities of Provence, in Southern France. It is the main city of the département of Vaucluse, and is located on the banks of the Rhône river. Avignon was one of the European Cities of Culture in 2000.
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Bourges Cathedral
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Arles (Arle in Provençal) is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, of which it is a sous-préfecture, in the former province of Provence.
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La Rochelle is a city in the province of Charente-Maritime, France.
Access
By plane
Daily flights to La Rochelle are available from London Stansted.
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A museum in a station
The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first "work of art" in the Musee d'Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.
From station to museum
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The Monument
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Advertisement POMEROL, France — The word Bordeaux connotes magnificent chateaus, aristocratic (or at least wealthy or corporate) landowners and wines that occasionally live up to their pretensions. But in the vine-covered countryside surrounding this sleepy village, where the tiniest undulation of the land constitutes a hill, […]
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For years, the 11th and 12 arrondissements, two formerly quiet, working class neighborhoods in eastern Paris, have been the preferred location for the French capital’s best young chefs. Why? Affordable apartments assure a hungry young clientele for the new restaurateurs who choose the area for […]
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Move over, Musée Picasso—there’s a new museum coming to France and it’s slated to have the largest Pablo Picasso collection in the world. Catherine Hutin-Blay, the artist’s stepdaughter, recently purchased an old convent in Aix-en-Provence with the intention of creating a museum dedicated to Picasso and […]
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