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Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera

23 March 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Cagnes-sur-Mer (literally Cagnes on Sea) is a French Riviera town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France. Cagnes-sur-Mer is a town in south-eastern France located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, between Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Villeneuve-Loubet. It stretches along a cove offering nearly four kilometers (2.5 miles) of beach and is surrounded by hills, including that of the castle which rises to 300 feet (91 meters) above sea level.   read more…

Porquerolles on the French Riviera

23 December 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Porquerolles, also known as the Île de Porquerolles, is an island in the Îles d’Hyères, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France. Its land area is 1,254 hectares (12.54 km²; 4.84 sq mi) and in 2004 its population was about 200. Since 2010, the island also hosts a jazz festival each summer (“Jazz à Porquerolles”).   read more…

Tende in France

22 April 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Tende is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Tende is located within Mercantour National Park in the French Alps. The mountainous commune is bordered by Italy to the north, with the boundary determined by the watershed line between the two countries. This line of mountain tops contains more than 20 summits exceeding 2,000 meters (6,600 feet).   read more…

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera

5 March 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  8 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France between Monaco and Menton. The name was changed from Roquebrune to differentiate the town from Roquebrune-sur-Argens in the neighboring Var department.   read more…

Le Lavandou on the Côte d’Azur Varoise

1 January 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Le Lavandou (Occitan: Lo Lavandor) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France. It derives its name either from the flower lavender (lavanda in Provençal) that is prevalent in the area, or more prosaically from the local form of the Occitan name for lavoir, lavandor (for lavador, a public place for washing clothes).   read more…

Port-Cros National Park on the French Riviera

15 November 2019 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera, Environment, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Port-Cros National Park (French: Parc national de Port-Cros) is a French national park established on the Mediterranean island of Port-Cros, east of Toulon and Hyères. The area around the islands of Porquerolles, Port-Cros, Île du Levant and others, is located ten kilometers off the French Riviera. It also administers natural areas in some surrounding locales.   read more…

Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes

3 June 2019 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera, Hotels Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is a resort hotel in Antibes on the French Riviera. Built in 1869 as a private mansion, it opened as a hotel in 1887. Rudolf August Oetker, a German industrialist, and his wife Maja von Malaisé first spotted the mansion while sailing on the Côte d’Azur in 1964; they bought the hotel five years later. For many years the hotel did not accept credit cards. Cash only was accepted, though most guests wired money ahead of their stay. In 2006 this policy was dropped.   read more…

Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera

27 May 2019 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, French Riviera Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Saint-Paul-de-Vence is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France with 3500 inhabitants. One of the oldest medieval towns on the French Riviera, it is well known for its modern and contemporary art museums and galleries such as Fondation Maeght which is located nearby.   read more…

The European Union: Bon voyage!

10 November 2018 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, Berlin, French Riviera, Editorial, European Union, Hamburg, London, Paris / Île-de-France, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  386 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Past posts of the EU series have focused on the EU as such, its different political fields and institutions, and culinary aspects. In this post, the EU and its federal states can be experienced at first hand. The EU supports this by, among other things, the annual title of the European Capital of Culture (The Guardian, 5 March 2020: 10 smaller European Capitals of Culture you may not have heard of). The title creates a window in the cultural and social life of the respective city / region as well as the entire federal state, but no rule without exception: In the year 2000 Reykjavík in Iceland was the first city which country is EFTA member and not in the EU. In the year 2010 Istanbul in Turkey was the first city of a candidate for membership of the European Union. In addition there are cultural routes in the individual federal states and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. According to the World Economic Forum, 5 of the TOP10 destinations in the world are EU states. These are Spain (1), France (2), Germany (3), United Kingdom (5) and Italy (8). The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) also sees 5 of the top 10 destinations of the world in the EU, but in a different order: France (1), Spain (3), Italy (5), Germany (7) and United Kingdom (9). Today we are doing a small tour through the federal states, which might inspire you to experience the European Union on site. Enjoy! :-)   read more…