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The arrondissement of Toulon (French: arrondissement de Toulon) is an arrondissement of France in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 32 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 590,778 (2021), and its area is 1,233.5 km 2 (476.3 sq mi).
According to data collected by Météo-France, Toulon is the second city (after Marseille) in metropolitan France with the most sunshine per year: an average of 2,854.1 hours a year from 1991 to 2020, compared with 2,695 hours a year for Nice and 2,472 hours for Perpignan. [26]
France 3 Alsace produces two daily region-wide news programmes - a 15 to 20-minute bulletin (midi-pile) at 1200 CET during Ici 12/13 and the main half-hour news at 1900 during Ici 19/20. Two 10-minute sub-regional bulletins, Strasbourg-Deux Rives (serving Bas-Rhin ) and France 3 Haute-Alsace (serving Haut-Rhin ) are broadcast during Ici 19/20 ...
When the Imperial army left, the fort was used to imprison the chevalier Bertrande de la Garde, who had fought for Charles V against Francis I. He was the first of many political prisoners to be held in the underground cells of the fort. Barbarossa's Ottoman fleet wintering in the harbor of Toulon in 1543, with the Tour Royale (bottom right).
Toulon Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Seds de Toulon; Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède de Toulon), also known as Sainte-Marie-Majeure, is a Catholic church located in Toulon, in the Var department of France. The cathedral is a national monument. Construction of the church began in the 11th century and finished in the 18th century.
A Bagnard, or prisoner in the Bagne of Toulon, early 19th century. (Source: Museum of Fort Balaguier) The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious bagne, or penal establishment in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of the fictional Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables. It was opened in 1748 and closed in 1873.
From its beginnings, Télé Monte-Carlo offered two 20-minute news bulletins (Télé-Soir, at 8:00 p.m., and Télé-Dernière, at 10:15 p.m.) [9] and a program dedicated to children, Club Tintin. [10] Denise Fabre started her career in 1961 as an announcer on the channel and served there until December 1963. In 1963, the channel was now branded ...
Toulon-sur-Arroux (French pronunciation: [tulɔ̃ syʁ aʁu], literally Toulon on Arroux) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. See also