At first glance, it didn’t appear that impressive: a worn limestone pillar, six feet high and two feet wide, standing slightly askew beside a country road near the village of Pélissanne in southern France. “A lot of people pass by without knowing what it is,” Bruno Tassan, 61, was saying, as he tugged aside dense [...]
Posts Tagged ‘France’
2 Jul
2009 New World Heritage Sites
The World Heritage Committee holding its 33rd session chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed two new natural sites and 11 cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Since it also withdrew one site – from the List, Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany), the List now [...]
6 May
Women get to see Mount Athos treasures for first time in 1000 years
The legendary treasures of Mount Athos have been out of bounds for woman for almost 1000 years.
But an exhibition that has opened in Paris means the fairer sex can finally lay their eyes on the ancient Byzantine artifacts. Almost 200 works of art from the male-only Orthodox enclave in northern Greece are on show at [...]
11 Mar
Remains Of Gallo-Roman Vineyard Discovered In Gevrey-Chambertin
Gevrey-Chambertin, 12 km from Dijon, is famous throughout the world for its Burgundy wines. It is now possible to conclude that winegrowing in this region goes back to the Gallo-Roman era, as testified by the findings of excavations by the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (INRAP), at the spot known as “Au dessus de [...]
9 Mar
L’Abbaye de Fontenay
Short history:
1118. The abbey was founded by Saint Bernard in a small marshy valley a few kilometers from Montbard (Burgundy).
1130. The monks settled down on the actual Fontenay site, at the intersection of two combes.
1139. Ebrard, the Bishop of Norwich, came to Fontenay to flee the persecution he was under in England. His fortune financed [...]
