Our Saturday visit to the Medieval perched village of Le Broc coincided with a Christmas Village event. These events are common in December in Provence – stands selling local products, toys, crafts and great things to eat. All in an…
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We have the latest news of the France ski-station opening dates for the 2010-2011 season; all will be open by the end of December. The earliest, already opened towards the end of November, include Auron, Isola 2000, Montgenèvre and the…
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The ski station at Montgenèvre, near Briançon and on the Italian border, had some really good snowfall during the last half of November, making it one of the first French ski stations to open. Other November snowfall in the South…
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We’ve added the Alpes-Maritimes village of Briançonnet to Beyond. Located in the back country north of Grasse and south of Entrevaux, Briançonnet sits on a high mountain pass in the upper Valley of the Esteron. We visited yesterday, with the…
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The Caille Meteorite, the largest meteorite ever discovered in France, landed on a mountain beside the village of Caille sometime before 1630. Dragged to the village by four oxen, the iron-stone hung around the village for a century and a…
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The Haute-Alpes town of Gap has been added to Beyond. This ancient cross-roads town of Gap is on the Roman Domitienne Way and on the more recent (by a few centuries) Route Napoleon. Today it’s a market town and the…
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The route for the 2011 Tour de France cycling race has just been announced, and we have the information in Beyond’s Sports-Cycling section. The route begins in the northwest of France (Vendée, Brittany), then runs southeast from Le Mans to…
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Known as the Oppidum de Nages or the Oppidum des Castels, this hilltop fortress was built in the 8th century BC and lived in until the 1st century AD. It’s located by the village of Nages-et-Solorgues, just a few km…
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The Chartreuse de la Verne is a beautiful, large monastery isolated in the wooded hills of the Maures mountains, only about 20 km west of Saint-Tropez. The original Chartreuse was founded here in the 12th century. The current buildings are…
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We’ve added the Hérault village of St-Maurice-Navacelles to Beyond. Located on the Larzac Plateau in the upper Languedoc-Roussillon region, this small village is very close to the Navacelles Cirque and numerous dolmens and menhirs.
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