6 January 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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The Étang de Berre is a
brackish water lagoon on the
Mediterranean coast of
France , about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of
Marseille . The
Marseille Provence Airport is located in the southeast portion of the Étang de Berre, with its main runway extending into the water on reclaimed land.
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7 October 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Aix-Marseille University (AMU;
French : Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as Université d’Aix-Marseille) is a
public research university located in the
Provence region of
southern France . It was founded in 1409 when
Louis II of Anjou ,
Count of Provence , petitioned the
Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the
University of Provence , making it one of the
oldest university-level institutions in France . The institution came into its current form following a reunification of the University of Provence, the
University of the Mediterranean and
Paul Cézanne University . The reunification became effective on 1 January 2012, resulting in the creation of the largest university in the
French-speaking world , with about 80,000 students. AMU has the largest budget of any academic institution in the Francophone world, standing at €750 million. It is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is ranked within the top 5 universities in
France according to
ARWU ,
USNWR , and
CWTS .
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23 December 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , French Riviera
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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”).
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26 November 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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Gordes (
Occitan : Gòrda) is a
commune in the
Vaucluse département in the
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France. The residents are known as
Gordiens . The nearest big city is
Avignon ; smaller cities nearby include
Cavaillon ,
L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and
Apt . The territory of Gordes occupies some of “
Les Monts de Vaucluse “, a group of mountains and hills, part in the valley of the Calavon (a local river) also called the “Luberon Valley”. Gordes is part of the
Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (“the most beautiful villages of France”).
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22 April 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , French Riviera
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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).
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5 March 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , French Riviera
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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.
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1 January 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , French Riviera
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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).
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15 November 2019 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , French Riviera , Environment , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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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.
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3 June 2019 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , French Riviera , Hotels
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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.
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