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Vintage Europe Air France Masterprint
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Le Mans 12 et 13 Juin 1954
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Vintage Automobile Racing Posters Reprints – French Auto Race / Motorsports Racing Advertisements Posters – 24-hour race at Le Mans Advertising Poster Reprint – Historical Car Races Photos and Images
The 24-hour race at Le Mans is an endurance race for sports cars, which is organized by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), near the French town of Le Mans. 24 Heures du Mans car races are organized since 1923. In 1955, the world’s biggest disaster of motorsports racings occured at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, by the fatal accident of 83 participants were killed.
Marseille
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Porte de l’Afrique du Nord – Marseille Travel Advertisement
Marseille is the second largest city in France and the country’s busiest Mediterranean port, with its famous Canebiere, the Promenade of the Corniche, the Chateau d’If, from where the legendary Count of Monte Cristo is supposed to have escaped; the museum of Fine Art and Le Corbusier’s modern Cite Radieuse.
La Vieille Lighthouse, Pointe Du Raz, Cape Sizun, Finistere Region, Brittany, France
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Brittany stands where the English Channel and the Atlantic meet. Near Carnac are the menhirs, gigantic monuments in granite erected more than 4,000 years ago – and don’t miss the mysterious dolmens of Locmariquer. St Male, the ‘City of Corsairs’, is a walled city with massive medieval ramparts; it was burnt by the occupying Germans in 1944 and later scrupulously rebuilt; Pointe de Raz, the most western point of France, just out into the Atlantic. Quimper is the tourist center.
Market days are on Wednesday and Saturday, when thousands of Bretons, many in provincial costume, flock to the square in front of ancient Cathedral. One of the main tourist attractions of the region are the Pardons, religious pilgrimages with chanting and candlelit processions through the open meadows and woods, celebrated all over Brittany, from February to October. Nantes is a brustling city with a 15th century ducal castle, superbly illuminated at night time. Dinard is the most popular resort by the sea, with splendid villas, beautiful beaches and a great casino. Le Grand Hotel (46 avenue George V) and Roche Corneille (4 rue Georges Clemenceau) both have single rooms.
Cote d’Azur Travel Poster
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Provence Cote d’Azur is France’s intrnational playground. Sophististicated resorts, yacht marinas, picturesque little harbors, long sweeping beaches and the warm clear Mediterranean.
La Corse
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Vintage Monaco Yacht Tours Advertisement Posters – Sail, Boat & Yacht Tourism Agencies Ads from the Beginnings of 20th Century – Vintage Luxury Cruise vacations Advertisements Prints
Undersea exploration, regattas, cruises and big game fishing are organized by the Yacht Club de Monaco, which also has a sailing school. Water skiing off the beaches and boats are for hire. For tennis and squash, the Monte Carlo Country Club is open all year round. The Golf Club has a fantastic 18 hole golf course 3,000 feet above sea level on Mont Agel and there is mini golf at the Cafe de Paris. For winter sports, Monaco is only two hours away from the French Alps. In January and May, motor sports fans flock to Monte Carlo for the famous Rally and for the Monaco Grand Prix.
Boxing, fencing and football are played and giynmastics performed. Pebbly Monte Carlo beach and the sandy Larvotto Beach are popular and there are marvielous heated sea-water pools where you can go swimming the year round (Piscine des Terrasses, the Olympic sized pool at the Stade Nautique Rinier III, Hotel Metropole Swimming Pool).
Marche De La Condamine, Monaco
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The harbor district which links Monte Carlo with the Rocher de Monaco. Hanging on the rock side, with a wonderful vew of the whole principality, the Jardin Exotique has a most extraordinary collection of cacti. From here you can go through the Observatoire Grottos with their caverns full of strange and brilliant stalactite and stalagmite formations and then to the Musueum of Prehistoric Anthropology, also founded by enlightened Prince Albert I, which contains beautiful collections of Roman antiquities.
High Rise Buildings at Sunrise, Palm Tree in Foreground, La Condamine, Monaco, Europe
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Between France and Spain run the Pyrenees, with spas and winter sports centers, seaside resorts, mountain amphitheaters, such as the Gavarnie, with a waterfall 1450 feet high, subterranean grottos and caves rich in prehistoric finds. Biarritz is the smartest of Atlantic seaside resorts. There is an 18 hole golf course, casino, restaurants (while here you must try Cargolade – grilled snails with peppers; or fried eels a la bordelaise) and several de luxe hotels. Far more picturesque and intimate is the fishing port of Saint Jean de Luz.
La Chateau des Pyrenees
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Eastward along the mountain range is Pau, the starting point for tours of the Pyrenees. Every year millions of visitors come to the pilgrimage city of Lourdes to see the grotto where in 1858 St Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary. The most important pilgrimage takes place from 18 to 25 August. Luchon, overlooking Spain, has excellent ski runs and thermal baths. You must see the Grotto of Gargas, near Saint Bertrand, whose vault is covered with the prehistoric imprints of mutilated hands and the caves of Mas d’Azil, near Saint Girons, with its fascinating rock drawings of horses, bison, reindeer and cats – the Caverne Merveilleuese extends for two and a half miles. These caves were used during World War Two as aircraft factories.
Vernet-les-Bains: Pyrenees Orientales, c.1896
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Harvesting in July, Near Chinon, Val De Loire, Centre, France, Europe
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The river Loire flows through the Chateau Country: five centuries of the history of France beautifully preserved in magnificent castles, fortresses and abbeys. Kings and Queens and the nobility, partisans and revolutionaries come to life again in the gorgeous son et lumiere spectacles.
Traveling south by car along the N10 highways, you will come to the fortress castle of Chateaudun; follow the same route and you will reach the Loire and the city of Tours, the center of this region. To the east, along the valley (upstream) you will find Amboise, in whose chateau Charles VIII died and where 1,500 Huguenot conspirators were massacred in 1560; Blois, where you will be shown the death chamber of Catherine de Medici; Chambord, which has 440 rooms, walled-in gardens and the largest estate in France. Westward along the walley towards the Atlantic, you will come to Azy le Rideau, with one of the most beautiful castles of early Renaissance; Saumur, renowned for the Cavalry School and its Cadre Noir (Black Squadron); Angers, whose chateau with 190-ft high towers is surrounded with 30-ft deep moats and where you shouldsee the Cathedral Saint Maurice and the Museum of Tapestry. There are 120 castles to visit. You must see the vineyards of Vouvray, where some of the finest wines in the world come from, and the Cognac country. If you are in France on 7 and 8 May, go to Orleans for the annual festival of Joan of Arc.
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