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Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan, where Itsukushima Shrine, another UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Historically, Mont-Saint-Michel was the Norman counterpart of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall , UK , which was given to the Benedictines , the religious order of Mont-Saint-Michel, by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.
Île de la Cité. Île de la Cité (French: [il də la site]; English: City Island), [1] 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, [2] is one of two [a] natural islands in the Seine, in central Paris. In the 4th century, it was the site of the fortress of the area governor for the Roman Empire. In 508, Clovis I, the first King of the Franks ...
Properties on the World Heritage List. A series of prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps. transboundary property, shared with Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, 11 of the total 111 sites are in France. An outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages ...
A look at a Parisian street map in the 1920s. Spectators traveling to Paris for the 1924 Olympics likely depended on roadside maps, like the one pictured here, to help guide them to the Stade du ...
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), sometimes called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. Its closest living relatives are the wombats. The koala is found in coastal areas of the island's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland ...
They sell Mother's Day cakes and Easter chocolates. If you happen to be in Paris for Epiphany in January, try a galette de rois, which is a traditional round cake. Go to the famous museums, but ...
The Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris is the most visited necropolis in the world, so it’s easy to imagine how busy it can get, especially around the most famous graves such as Jim Morrison’s ...
The Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre (English: Sacred Heart of Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (French: Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was formally approved as a national ...