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The line halved the travel time between Paris and Strasbourg and provides fast services between Paris and the principal cities of Eastern France as well as Luxembourg and Germany. The LGV Est is a segment of the Main Line for Europe project to connect Paris with Budapest with high-speed rail service. The line was built in two phases.
To the name Testot was joined that of Ferry in 1698 when Miss Catherine Ferry (the general's great-grandmother), the last representative of a noble family whose origins in Normandy date back to 1220. [3] It was registered at the Parlement of Paris in 1692, and its head was the noble Gilles Ferry, secretary of state to Jean, king of France. The ...
After forty-four years of war, from the victory of Marignano to the treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1515-59), France relinquished hopes of retaining possession of Italy, but wrested the Bishoprics of Metz, Toul, and Verdun from the empire and had won back possession of Calais. The Spaniards were left in possession of Naples and the country around ...
Europe’s most famous train, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, will launch an annual trip from Paris to Portofino, starting in June 2024.
During the early 1990s NAVARMA acquired further used ferries, which replaced the Moby ferries acquired in the 1980s. During the same time "Moby Lines" was adopted as the official company name. From 1996 onwards the company fleet has grown radically with addition of new, larger and faster tonnage, including the newbuilt fast cruiseferries Moby ...
Verdun (/ v ɜːr ˈ d ʌ n / vur-DUN, [3] UK also / ˈ v ɛər d ʌ n / VAIR-dun; [4] US also / v ɛər ˈ d ʌ n / vair-DUN, [5] French: ⓘ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department.
The Palatino Express or Rome Express is a historic express train operating between Paris, France, and Rome, Italy, since 1890. [1] Under the name Rome Express the pre-war service operated daily until interrupted by the Second World War.
VDOT provides free car ferry services in Southern Virginia, including the Jamestown Ferry; Washington State Ferries (northwest US) White's Ferry, a cable ferry between Maryland and Virginia; Woodland Ferry, cable ferry located in western Sussex County, Delaware, spanning the Nanticoke River at Woodland, Delaware, west of the city of Seaford