The label Villes et Villages Fleuris aims at improving people’s quality of living via the creation of green spaces respecting environment and biodiversity
Month: November 2015
Plus Beaux Villages de France – Basic facts
Most Beautiful villages in France, a label created in 1982 to protect and promote French villages historical, cultural and architectural heritage
Rue Cremieux – Discover bucolic Paris
Rue Cremieux, a village street located near Gare de Lyon in Paris, and bordered with English style 2-story terraced cottages painted in different colours
French School Holidays – Up-to-date Calendar
Updated French School Holidays calendar, for each of France’s three zones, for the academic years 2016-17 and 2017-18, and a reminder for 2015-16
Beaujolais Vineyard – Wine Appellations
Beaujolais Vineyard is one of 16 great French vineyards, it spreads over 19,000 hectares along the river Saône and between the towns of Macons and Lyon
Beaujolais Nouveau – Basic facts
Beaujolais Nouveau, a primeur wine obtained from Gamay N grape variety and produced exclusively in the AOC Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages vineyards
Maginot Monument – Fleury-devant-Douaumont
Maginot Monument, a memorial to the minister of War who fought at Verdun as a patrolman and had a fortifications line built along France’s eastern borders
Douaumont – Destroyed village – Verdun WWI
Douaumont, a village entirely destroyed during the Battle of Verdun, never rebuilt, declared ‘Dead for France’ and kept in its war state as a Memorial
Fleury-devant-Douaumont – Destroyed village – Verdun WWI
Fleury-devant-Douaumont in the Meuse, a village that was completely destroyed during WWI, but was never rebuilt and kept in its war state as a memorial
Fort of Douaumont – Battle of Verdun – WWI
The Fort of Douaumont was built 1885 and disarmed in 1915 as outdated, but remained a target for the Germans due to its central position on the Verdun front
Bayonet Trench in Douaumont – Verdun WWI
Bayonet Trench near the Douaumont Ossuary, a Memorial to the French soldiers buried alive in their trench on June 12, 1916 during the Battle of Verdun
Abri 320 – Underground shelter Douaumont – WWI
Abri 320, built in 1891, located at the foot of the Douaumont Ossuary – National Cemetery and used as a command post and underground shelter during WWI