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Roue de Paris on the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France Roue de Paris in Geleen, the Netherlands. The Roue de Paris is a 60-metre (200 ft) tall [1] [2] transportable Ferris wheel, originally installed on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, for the 2000 millennium celebrations.
This is a list of city and town halls in France. The list is sortable by building age and height, and provides a link to the database of monuments historique , which is a listing of buildings and structures important to France's architectural and historical cultural heritage , [ 1 ] where relevant.
Grande Roue de Paris, ca. 1900 Exposition Universelle of 1900, viewed from north north east Share of the Paris Gigantic Wheel and Varieties Company, issued 20. September 1898 September 1898 The Grande Roue de Paris was a 96-metre (315 ft) tall [ 1 ] Ferris wheel built in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle world exhibition at Paris .
Neustria: A French-speaking 14th-century western European kingdom in Leslie Barringer's Neustria cycle of historical fantasy. An actual Neustria existed from about the 6th to the 10th century, when it was absorbed into France. Neutralia: Fictional version of Portugal from Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler.
All figures reflect the municipal population (French: population municipale), meaning people who have their usual residence in the commune, [2] excluding population counted apart. [3] The population of the matching urban unit is usually several times that of its central commune. Populations as of 2006 and 2013 are also shown.
The Unesco-listed Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims, which played host to the coronation of French kings for over 1,000 years, is the city’s crowning jewel – and the decadent delights don’t ...
Rouen (UK: / ˈ r uː ɒ̃, ˈ r uː ɒ n /, US: / r uː ˈ ɒ̃, r uː ˈ ɒ n /; [3] [4] French: ⓘ or) [needs Norman IPA] is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France.It is in the prefecture of region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime.
Listenbourg is a fictional country created as the subject of an internet meme in October 2022, which depicts it as an extension of the Iberian Peninsula. [1] [2] [3] French Twitter user Gaspard Hoelscher shared a doctored map of Europe with a red arrow pointing to the outline of a pasted country adjacent to Portugal and Spain, and joked that Americans would not be able to name the country.