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The bishop then made a pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1357. [11] That same year, Arnaud de Cervole, known as the Archpriest, headed for Avignon via the Camargue with his Anglo-Gascon bands. The relics contained in the church were sheltered at Sainte-Baume and Notre-Dame-de-la-Mer saw its fortifications reinforced. [4]
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃tmaʁi d(ə) la mɛʁ], alternatively with the definite article Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, lit. "(the) Saint Marys of the Sea", locally Les Saintes, [le sɛ̃t]; Provençal: Lei Santei Marias de la Mar (classical norm) or Li Sànti Marìo de la Mar (Mistralian norm)), is the capital of the Camargue (Provençal: Camarga) natural region in ...
Celebrating the maritime ambition of the Cherbourg conurbation, La Cité de la Mer has been a success since its opening, becoming the second most visited paid tourist site in the English Channel, after the Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey. At the end of 2012, it welcomed its 2,500,000th visitor and its 3,000,000th on May 5, 2015. [1]
La mer was the second of Debussy's three orchestral works in three sections, the other being Nocturnes (1892–1899) and Images pour orchestre (1905–1912). The first, the Nocturnes, premiered in Paris in 1901 and though it had not made any great impact on the public, it was well-reviewed by musicians including Paul Dukas, Alfred Bruneau and Pierre de Bréville.
In 1966 there were already over 100 different recordings of "La Mer", and it was considered to be France's best-selling song, together with Édith Piaf's "La Vie en rose". [4] By the time of Trenet's death in 2001, there were more than 4,000 different recordings of it, [5] [6] with over 70 million copies sold in total. [7]
White dot: Location of Belle Île in France. Red dot: Location of the city Le Palais on Belle Île. Belle-Île (French pronunciation: [bɛl il]), Belle-Île-en-Mer (French pronunciation: [bɛl il ɑ̃ mɛʁ]), or Belle Isle (Breton: Ar Gerveur, [arˌɡɛrˈvøːr]; Old Breton: Guedel) is a French island off the coast of Brittany in the département of Morbihan, and the largest of Brittany's ...
The French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is the subject of a series of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in June 1888. When Van Gogh lived in Arles, he took a week-long trip to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the Mediterranean Sea , where he made several paintings of the seascape and town.
Cagnes-sur-Mer is a town in southeastern France on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea between Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Villeneuve-Loubet.The largest suburb of Nice, it stretches along a cove offering nearly 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) of beach and is surrounded by hills, including the one of the castle, which rises to 91 metres (299 ft) above sea level.