Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163

 

Situated in the Rhone valley, the ancient theatre of Orange, with its 103-m-long facade, is one of the best preserved of all the great Roman theatres. Built between A.D. 10 and 25, the Roman arch is one of the most beautiful and interesting surviving examples of a provincial triumphal arch from the reign of Augustus. It is decorated with low reliefs commemorating the establishment of the Pax Romana.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 5 May, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/229

 

Nancy, the temporary residence of a king without a kingdom – Stanislas Leszczynski, later to become Duke of Lorraine – is paradoxically the oldest and most typical example of a modern capital where an enlightened monarch proved to be sensitive to the needs of the public. Built between 1752 and 1756 by a brilliant team led by the architect Héré, this was a carefully conceived project that succeeded in creating a capital that not only enhanced the sovereign's prestige but was also functional.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 5 May, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/932

 

Viticulture was introduced to this fertile region of Aquitaine by the Romans, and intensified in the Middle Ages. The Saint-Emilion area benefited from its location on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and many churches, monasteries and hospices were built there from the 11th century onwards. It was granted the special status of a 'jurisdiction' during the period of English rule in the 12th century. It is an exceptional landscape devoted entirely to wine-growing, with many fine historic monuments in its towns and villages.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 5 May, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/345

 

Since the pre-Roman period, a fortified settlement has existed on the hill where Carcassonne now stands. In its present form it is an outstanding example of a medieval fortified town, with its massive defences encircling the castle and the surrounding buildings, its streets and its fine Gothic cathedral. Carcassonne is also of exceptional importance because of the lengthy restoration campaign undertaken by Viollet-le-Duc, one of the founders of the modern science of conservation.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 5 May, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Bordeaux, Port of the Moon, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1256

 

The Port of the Moon, port city of Bordeaux in south-west France, is inscribed as an inhabited historic city, an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble, created in the age of the Enlightenment, whose values continued up to the first half of the 20th century, with more protected buildings than any other French city except Paris. It is also recognized for its historic role as a place of exchange of cultural values over more than 2,000 years, particularly since the 12th century due to commercial links with Britain and the Low Lands. Urban plans and architectural ensembles of the early 18th century onwards place the city as an outstanding example of innovative classical and neoclassical trends and give it an exceptional urban and architectural unity and coherence. Its urban form represents the success of philosophers who wanted to make towns into melting pots of humanism, universality and culture.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 16 Apr, 2014, Received on: 06 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 20 days

Strasbourg – Grande île, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/495

 

Surrounded by two arms of the River Ill, the Grande Ile (Big Island) is the historic centre of the Alsatian capital. It has an outstanding complex of monuments within a fairly small area. The cathedral, the four ancient churches and the Palais Rohan – former residence of the prince-bishops – far from appearing as isolated monuments, form a district that is characteristic of a medieval town and illustrates Strasbourg's evolution from the 15th to the 18th century.

 

 

Sender: Ertan, Sent on: 19 Apr, 2014, Received on: 29 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 10 days

Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/873

 

The fortified medieval town of Provins is situated in the former territory of the powerful Counts of Champagne. It bears witness to early developments in the organization of international trading fairs and the wool industry. The urban structure of Provins, which was built specifically to host the fairs and related activities, has been well preserved.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 19 Apr, 2014, Received on: 29 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 10 days

Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1181

 

The city of Le Havre, on the English Channel in Normandy, was severely bombed during the Second World War. The destroyed area was rebuilt according to the plan of a team headed by Auguste Perret, from 1945 to 1964. The site forms the administrative, commercial and cultural centre of Le Havre. Le Havre is exceptional among many reconstructed cities for its unity and integrity. It combines a reflection of the earlier pattern of the town and its extant historic structures with the new ideas of town planning and construction technology. It is an outstanding post-war example of urban planning and architecture based on the unity of methodology and the use of prefabrication, the systematic utilization of a modular grid, and the innovative exploitation of the potential of concrete.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 19 Apr, 2014, Received on: 29 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 10 days

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/601

 

The outstanding handling of new architectural techniques in the 13th century, and the harmonious marriage of sculptural decoration with architecture, has made Notre-Dame in Reims one of the masterpieces of Gothic art. The former abbey still has its beautiful 9th-century nave, in which lie the remains of Archbishop St Rémi (440–533), who instituted the Holy Anointing of the kings of France. The former archiepiscopal palace known as the Tau Palace, which played an important role in religious ceremonies, was almost entirely rebuilt in the 17th century.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 19 Apr, 2014, Received on: 29 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 10 days

Amiens Cathedral, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/162

 

Amiens Cathedral, in the heart of Picardy, is one of the largest 'classic' Gothic churches of the 13th century. It is notable for the coherence of its plan, the beauty of its three-tier interior elevation and the particularly fine display of sculptures on the principal facade and in the south transept.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 19 Apr, 2014, Received on: 29 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 10 days

Episcopal City of Albi, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1337

 

On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval architectural and urban ensemble. Today the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to its initial development (10th -11th centuries). Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. Built in a unique southern French Gothic style from local brick in characteristic red and orange colours, the lofty fortified Cathedral (late 13th century) dominates the city, demonstrating the power regained by the Roman Catholic clergy. Alongside the Cathedral is the vast bishop’s Palais de la Berbie, overlooking the river and surrounded by residential quarters that date back to the Middle Ages. The Episcopal City of Albi forms a coherent and homogeneous ensemble of monuments and quarters that has remained largely unchanged over the centuries.

 

 

Sender: Sebastien, Sent on: 16 Apr, 2014, Received on: 25 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Belfries of Belgium and France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/943

Twenty-three belfries in the north of France and the belfry of Gembloux in Belgium were inscribed as a group, an extension to the 32 Belgian belfries inscribed in 1999 as Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia. Built between the 11th and 17th centuries, they showcase the Roman, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles of architecture. They are highly significant tokens of the winning of civil liberties. While Italian, German and English towns mainly opted to build town halls, in part of north-western Europe, greater emphasis was placed on building belfries. Compared with the keep (symbol of the seigneurs) and the bell-tower (symbol of the Church), the belfry, the third tower in the urban landscape, symbolizes the power of the aldermen. Over the centuries, they came to represent the influence and wealth of the towns.

A) NORD-PAS DE CALAIS

Nord

- Armentières Belfry of the City Hall 

- Bailleul Belfry of the City Hall 

- Bergues Belfry 

- Cambrai Belfry of the St. Martin's Church 

- Comines Belfry of the City Hall

- Douai Belfry of the City Hall 

- Dunkirk Belfry of the City Hall

- Dunkirk Belfry of the St. Eligius Church

- Gravelines Belfry 

Lille Belfry of the City Hall 

- Loos Belfry of the City Hall 

Pas-de-Calais

- Aire-sur-la-Lys Belfry of the City Hall 

- Arras Belfry of the City Hall 

- Béthune Belfry 

- Boulogne-sur-Mer Belfry of the City Hall 

- Calais Belfry of the City Hall 

- Hesdin Belfry of the City Hall 

B) PICARDY

Somme

- Abbeville Belfry 

- Amiens Belfry 

- Doullens Belfry of the former Municipal Hall, at present the tourist information center 

- Lucheux Belfry on the remaining City Gate 

- Rue Belfry 

- Saint-Riquier Belfry

Postcard 1 : Lille Belfry of the City Hall

Sender: famalubel, Sent on: 3 Mar, 2014, Received on: 7 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 4 days

Mont-Blanc, France (UNESCO TENTATIVE)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1431/

Mont Blanc, nicknamed "roof of Europe" as the culmination of the old continent (4807 meters), is the most famous part of an entire massif, Alps, exceptional collection of high mountain shared between three countries : France, Switzerland and Italy. 

The Mont Blanc massif whose summit (4807 m) is the highest in Europe is a collection of glaciers and mountain quite exceptional both the natural and cultural views insofar as it was at the behind the development of mountain sports including mountaineering. This unique landscape by the nobility of its vertices and the power of glaciers is indeed a high mythical places of mountaineering as well as Everest and Annapurna. It should be separated from all Vanoise - Grand Paradise which it does not belong and present the list as such.

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, more commonly known simply as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. The commune's population of around 9,800 ranks 865th within the country of France.

Sender: Eray, Sent on: 15 Feb, 2014, Received on: 24 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/868

Santiago de Compostela was the supreme goal for countless thousands of pious pilgrims who converged there from all over Europe throughout the Middle Ages. To reach Spain pilgrims had to pass through France, and the group of important historical monuments included in this inscription marks out the four routes by which they did so.

Sender: famalubel, Sent on: 6 Jan, 2014, Received on: 14 Jan, 2014, Travel time: 8 days

Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/80

Sender: cache71, Sent on: 6 Jan, 2014, Received on: 22 Jan, 2014, Travel time: 16 days

Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228

In the 14th century, this city in the South of France was the seat of the papacy. The Palais des Papes, an austere-looking fortress lavishly decorated by Simone Martini and Matteo Giovanetti, dominates the city, the surrounding ramparts and the remains of a 12th-century bridge over the Rhone. Beneath this outstanding example of Gothic architecture, the Petit Palais and the Romanesque Cathedral of Notre-Dame-des-Doms complete an exceptional group of monuments that testify to the leading role played by Avignon in 14th-century Christian Europe.

Sender: famalubel, Sent on: 6 Jan, 2014, Received on: 14 Jan, 2014, Travel time: 8 days

Bourges Cathedral, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/635

The Cathedral of St Etienne of Bourges, built between the late 12th and late 13th centuries, is one of the great masterpieces of Gothic art and is admired for its proportions and the unity of its design. The tympanum, sculptures and stained-glass windows are particularly striking. Apart from the beauty of the architecture, it attests to the power of Christianity in medieval France.

Sender: famalubel, Sent on: 6 Jan, 2014, Received on: 14 Jan, 2014, Travel time: 8 days

Chartres Cathedral, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/81

Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, in pure ogival style, the porches adorned with fine sculptures from the middle of the 12th century, and the magnificent 12th- and 13th-century stained-glass windows, all in remarkable condition, combine to make it a masterpiece.

Sender: cannelle124, Sent on: 21 Oct, 2013, Received on: 01 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 10 days

Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct), France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/344

The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who designed this bridge, which stands almost 50 m high and is on three levels – the longest measuring 275 m – created a technical as well as an artistic masterpiece.

Sender: mirabelle, Sent on: 21 Oct, 2013, Received on: 01 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 10 days

The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes, France (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/933

The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), and cultivated lands formed by many centuries of interaction between their population and the physical environment, primarily the river Loire itself.

Sender: Clem, Sent on: 28 Oct, 2013, Received on: 01 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 4 days