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Domme is 250 metres (820 ft) above sea level on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Dordogne river. With its trapezoid city plan, Domme is a bastide (a fortified medieval town) adapted to the surrounding terrain, and thus falling short of the rectangular city plan characteristic to bastides. Today a member of the association Les Plus Beaux Villages ...
The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish learning in the Middle Ages, but persecution increased over time, including multiple expulsions and returns. During the French Revolution in the late 18th century, on the other hand, France was ...
Guérande ( French pronunciation: [ɡeʁɑ̃d] ⓘ; Breton: Gwenrann, pronounced [ɡwɛnˈrãnː]; Gallo: Geraundd) is a medieval town located in the department of Loire-Atlantique, and the region of Pays de la Loire, Western France. [3] The inhabitants are referred to as Guérandais (masculine), and Guérandaise (feminine).
Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 ( French: Épidémie dansante de 1518 ), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France ), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for ...
Provins (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and importance throughout the Middle Ages as an economic center and a host of annual trading fairs, Provins became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Île-de-France: cultural 1979 2007 600 Paris, Banks of the Seine: Île-de-France: cultural 1991 - 229 Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance in Nancy: Grand Est: 18th century cultural 1983 - 334 Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) Occitanie: 1st century AD cultural 1985 2007 873 Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs Île-de-France ...
Arras ( / ˈærəs / ARR-əs, French: [aʁɑs] ⓘ; Picard: Aros; historical Dutch: Atrecht [ˈaːtrɛxt] ⓘ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; [3] before the reorganization of 2014 it was in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The historic centre of the Artois region, with a Baroque town ...
