Quimper is a commune and capital of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. The name Quimper comes from the Breton kemper, meaning “confluent”. Country France Region Brittany Department Finistère Mayor (2020–2026) Isabelle Assih Area1 84.45 km2 (32.61 sq mi) Population (2017-01-01) 62,985 Density 750/km2 (1,900/sq mi) Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET) Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST) Geography The city was built on the confluence of the Steir, Odet and Jet rivers Breton language The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d’ar brezhoneg on 6 […]
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,175,601 residents as of 2018, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe’s major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has […]
The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design is a French museum located into a former 18th-century Bordeaux aristocratic mansion, which presents today a collection of Decorative arts and furniture. Since 2013, the museum also deals with modern design. The museography features several reconstitutions (in the spirit of American period rooms) as well as rooms in which display cases and antique furniture exist […]
The Hippodrome de la Côte d’Azur is a racecourse which is located in the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer. It opened with temporary facilities in 1952, and was officially opened in December 1960. The most prestigious trotting race is the Grand Criterium speed of the Riviera, which is one of the great classics of trotting season Europe. The big event of year though […]
In Sète, the jousts were born with the port on July 29th 1666. An old maritime tradition, therefore, a living culture itself, which has its own codes, its own vocabulary, its rituals, its music. Water jousting is a sport practised principally in France and also Switzerland and Germany. It is a form of jousting where the adversaries, carrying a lance and protected only by a […]
The Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum is a museum of Gallo-Roman art and archaeology in the town of Périgueux, located in the French department of the Dordogne. The Gallo-Roman ruins covered by a glass museum was constructed to protect a historical monument of France. You’ll traverse the ground floor of the domus with the help of raised walkways, looking down at painted plasterwork and mosaics and […]
The Villa Majorelle is a house located at 1 rue Louis-Majorielle in the city of Nancy, France, which was the home and studio of the furniture designer Louis Majorelle. It was designed and built by the architect Henri Sauvage in 1901-1902. The villa is one of the first and most influential examples of the Art Nouveau architectural style in France. It served as […]
The so-called Temple of Diana is a 1st-century ancient Roman building in Nîmes, Gard, built under Augustus. It is located near the gushing spring of “La Fontaine”, around which was an Augusteum, a sanctuary devoted to the cult of the emperor and his family, centred on a nymphaeum. Its basilica-like floor plan argues against it being a temple and there is no […]
It is located opposite the railway tracks of Narbonne station, close to the family cooperage, a small courtyard at the entrance, invites you to discover this house, with green shutters, where Charles uttered his first cries, brooded by Aunt Emilie. At 79, he donated his birthplace in Narbonne (For a fee). Since November 4, 2000, the […]
The Covered Passage of Paris are an early form of shopping arcade built in Paris, France primarily during the first half of the 19th century. Only a couple of dozen passages remain in the 21st century, all on the Right Bank. The common characteristics of the covered passages are that they are: pedestrianised; glass-ceilings; artificially illuminated at night (initially with gas lamps); privately […]
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris, France, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Sacré-Cœur Basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. It is a popular landmark, and the second-most visited monument in Paris. The basilica was designed by Paul Abadie. […]
The Bois de Vincennes located on the eastern edge of Paris, is the largest public park in the city. It was created between 1855 and 1866 by Emperor Napoleon III. The park is next to the Château de Vincennes, a former residence of the Kings of France. It contains an English landscape garden with four lakes; a zoo; an arboretum; a botanical garden; a hippodrome or […]
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) long and 70 metres (230 ft) wide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theatres, cafés, and luxury shops, for the annual Bastille Day military parade, and as the finish […]
On the right of the Octagonal pond, another pavilion, erected in 1860, was designed to house the halls of the jeu de paume, the ancestor of tennis. This building has the same dimensions as the Orangerie, its counterpart. From the 1900s, the building became a place for exhibiting paintings from foreign schools, then the Impressionists and […]
The Picasso Arena , designed by Spanish architect Manuel Núñez Yanowsky in 1981 and inaugurated in 1985 is a real estate complex located in Noisy-le-Grand , France . The building complex is organized around the Pablo-Picasso square , octagonal in shape. Two axes, north-south and east-west, cross it. The perimeter of the square is entirely built, with the exception of its south side. The ensemble is mainly […]
The citadel of Belfort is a set of fortifications and defensive elements overlooking the city from a rocky promontory to the south, and protecting the “gap of Belfort”, a strategic communication axis that allows access to the Rhine Valley by borrowing a natural corridor between the Vosges mountains in the north and the Jura mountains in the south. A medieval castle was first rebuilt […]
The Museum of Earthenware and Fine Arts , more commonly called the Museum of Earthenware of Nevers is a museum in France , located in Nevers , in the Nièvre , in France , devoted mainly to earthenware and painting. The museum presents earthenware, sculptures, paintings, coins, posters and prints. You can also admire almost 300 pieces of intricate enamelled glass from the 17th and 18th centuries, crafted […]
Sandy, rock-edged public beach on a bay with showers, restrooms & a restaurant. You can get there easily with a short walk and down the steps, or the other side has handicap parking and you can walk directly to the beach.
The major axis is a monumental work located in Cergy, in the department of Val d’Oise in France . It is part of a loop of the Oise , in the center of the new town of Cergy-Pontoise . The work is designed by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavanfrom 1980, its first elements appearing during the 1980s. tThe Axis is made up of twelve stations over a length of 3.2 kilometers, including a leaning […]
The Musée aéronautique et spatial Safran is a French private aviation museum located in Melun, Seine-et-Marne. Established in May 1989 the museum contains a large collection of historic and modern aircraft engines. These engines have been produced by various French engine manufacturers such as Gnome et Rhône and Snecma which are now part of the present day Safran company. The latter is the creator and manager of the […]
The plastic surgery department includes reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery: reconstructive surgery for all lesions of the soft parts of the face, trunk and limbs, including breast reconstruction, plastic surgery for all deformities and figure anomalies, cosmetic surgery and microsurgery. The Angers Plastic Surgery Center , a private practice, brings together 5 surgeons qualified in Reconstructive and Aesthetic […]
The Despiau-Wlérick museum in Mont-de-Marsan is a municipal fine arts museum , more precisely a glyptothèque , controlled by the State. It takes the names of Charles Despiau and Robert Wlérick, two sons of Mont-de-Marsan and both celebrated sculptors: Wlérick is famous for sculpting the monument to Marshal Foch at the Place du Trocadéro in Paris in 1936. In all there are over 2,200 […]
Built around the enigmatic character, Michel de Nostredame known as Nostradamus (1503 – 1566), who studied the past, the present…and the future up until 3797. The Museum is located in the house where he lived from 1547 until his death and where he wrote his famous “Prophecies” … Discover this multi-faceted man engaged in Medicine, […]
The Château de Malmaison is a French château situated near the left bank of the Seine, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of the centre of Paris, in the municipality of Rueil-Malmaison. Formerly the residence of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, along with the Tuileries it was the headquarters of the French government from 1800 to 1802, and Napoleon’s last residence in France at the end of the Hundred […]
The Folie St. James was a French landscape garden created between 1777 and 1780 in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine by Claude Baudard de Saint James. The main attraction of the garden was a collection of forty-eight fabriques, or architectural constructions, placed on both sides of the avenue de Longchamp, and connected by two tunnels. The garden also featured a winding […]
East of the town centre is Chalon’s modern aquatic centre, and although a pool complex might not seem like the most inspiring day out, this one in Chalon is a different class: There are indoor and outdoor pools, and the centre springs to life in summer when there’s lots more on offer. With some 2,500 […]
The Nicéphore-Niépce museum in Chalon-sur-Saône is a museum of the history of photography from 1972 , labeled Musée de France and dedicated to the inventor of photography Nicéphore Niépce ( 1765 – 1833 ), in Chalon-sur- Saône in Saône-et-Loire ( Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ). Characteristics Support for French and international creation, reception in residences, constitution of a body of works capable of giving a complete vision of an artist’s career, production of prints under the direction of photographers, opening up […]
The Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM), formerly known as Villeneuve d’Ascq Museum of Modern Art, is an art museum in Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. With more than 4,500 artworks on a 4,000-square-metre (43,000 sq ft) exhibition area, the LaM is the only museum in Europe to present simultaneously the main components of the 20th and 21st centuries art : modern art, contemporary art and outsider […]
The Bénigne Joly mutualist clinic offers a complete care sector: Medicine Surgery, outpatient surgery Chemotherapy Dialysis – Nephrology ( The dialysis service ) Radiology – Scanner – MRI Follow-up and Rehabilitation Care Intensive care Home Hospitalization Doctors and all nursing, hotel and administrative staff do everything they can to ensure that your stay takes place in the […]
Created in 1952, the establishment has cared for more than 19,140 patients and carried out more than 500 births in 2016. The medical team is made up of 55 liberal practitioners. Equipped with ultramodern equipment and a first-rate technical platform, the Polyclinique Sainte Thérèse’s main concern is your satisfaction. Care offer: Surgery Maternity /Gynecology Diabetology […]
he teamwork of Urologists ensures continuous care through an emergency service open 24 hours a day with Urology on-call and continuity of care for hospitalized patients. The Ormeaux Urology Center is particularly committed to a quality approach in urological oncology: Reception of patients wishing the early diagnosis of prostate cancer coming spontaneously or referred by referring physicians. Discussion of […]
The Private Hospital of the Estuary is a benchmark healthcare establishment in the care of cancer patients in its healthcare territory With an experienced and multidisciplinary team, all our know-how is deployed to offer you complete support as soon as possible and under conditions. The Breast Institute of the Hopital Prive de l Estuaire […]
Access Radiologie, a declared association, has been active for 1 year. Established in IVRY-SUR-SEINE (94200), it is specialized in the area of radiodiagnostic and radiotherapy activities. Services and benefits: digital radiology, dental radiology, vascular radiology, MRI, ultrasound, doppler, osteodensitometry, radiology emergency, osteoarticular radiology, teleradiology, x-ray, etc.
The Clinic Laser Vision Alpine does the best in laser eye surgery ” Lasik laser everything ‘ . The clinic is a modern surgery center offering an advanced technical platform for the best laser treatment. The technical platform includes a treatment room (clean room) with: Air treatment – filtration (absolute filter) and renewal (1000 m3 / hour) Positive pressure Temperature treatment (21 ° […]
Specialist in hand and upper limb appliances ORTHESIS was created in 1999 by Jean REDOUX with 15 years of previous experience. Occupational therapist, Orthopedist-Orthotist and Orthopedist, we have large and small appliances. orthoses are made on molding in thermoformable materials, in leather or in neoprene. We manufacture on medical prescription: Static and dynamic orthoses for […]
Facilitate the professional activity of its members by pooling resources useful for the exercise of their profession ( a sports medicine consultation office, 4 physiotherapy treatment boxes, 1 80m² gymnasium equipped with strengthening equipment (treadmill, bicycle, functional strengthening) and physiotherapy., 1 group lesson room, 1 changing room with shower) without the company itself being able […]