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Nouvelle-Aquitaine (French pronunciation: [nuvɛl akitɛn] ⓘ) [3] is the largest administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine , Limousin , and Poitou-Charentes in a territorial reform.
Monuments historiques of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (12 C) P. History of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (9 P) V. History of Vienne (department) (1 C, 8 P)
Monuments historiques (official historical monuments) of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
Château de Cognac, also known as Château de Valois and Château François, is a castle in Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The castle has been rebuilt many times over the centuries. Fortifications have existed since Hélie de Villebois, 1st Lord of Cognac built a fort around 950.
1137 - 25 July: Wedding of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France in Bordeaux Cathedral. 1152 - Wedding of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England; 1154 - Aquitaine passes under the control of English Kings. [2] 1441 - University of Bordeaux founded. [3] 1453 - Battle of Castillon, Bordeaux and Aquitaine pass from English to French ...
It is also served by several TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional railway routes, including a route from Poitiers via Niort to La Rochelle, a route from Niort to Saintes, and a route from Tours to Thouars and Bressuire. [10] The région of Nouvelle-Aquitaine provides inter-urban bus service that connects the towns and villages of the département. [11]
Saintes (French: ⓘ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Sénte) is a commune and historic town in western France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime, with 25,518 inhabitants in 2021.
In 1152, Poitou came under English control through the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II (later king of England). The region was reunited with the French crown in 1416 and was a province of France until the Revolution (1789–1795), when it was divided into three departments, Vienne , Deux-Sèvres, and Vendée.