Tarascon (redirect from Tarascon (Bouches-du-Rhône))
sometimes referred to as Tarascon-sur-Rhône, is a commune situated at the extreme west of the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France in the Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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France. The village lies about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the east of the Rhône and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the town of Avignon. A ruined medieval...
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Hôtel du département des Bouches-du-Rhône, known as Le Grand Bleu, is the headquarters and council chambers of the Conseil General of Bouches-du-Rhône in...
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Beaucaire, Gard (redirect from Beaucaire, Bouches-du-Rhone)
River Rhône some 15 km south-west of Avignon and 10 km north of Arles. Across the river from Beaucaire lies Tarascon, which is in Bouches-du-Rhône department...
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river Leysse (and other small rivers), and it drains towards the river Rhône through the Canal de Savières, an artificial channel. It is a Ramsar site...
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Canton of Marseille-La Blancarde (category Former cantons of Bouches-du-Rhône)
Saint-Hugues, square Hopkinson, rue Beau. Arrondissement of Marseille Cantons of the Bouches-du-Rhône department Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department...
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known as Queyroun, is a village in the commune of Martigues in the Bouches-du-Rhône département in the south of France. It is situated on the Côte Bleue on...
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pious genre scenes with Eugène Delacroix's luminous palette (see Boats du Rhône); "search-for-sacred-realism" correspondence with his artist friend Émile...
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Provence (section Bouches-du-Rhône)
the Rhône Valley to the Bouches-du-Rhône and the Var Departments, and often reaches over one hundred kilometres an hour. Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône...
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Valence, Drôme (redirect from Valence-sur-Rhône)
the Drôme department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Lyon...
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Place de la Concorde (redirect from Concord Square (Paris))
kɔ̃kɔʁd]; lit. 'Concord Square') is a public square in Paris, France. Measuring 7.6 ha (19 acres) in area, it is the largest square in the French capital...
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Avignon (category Populated places on the Rhône)
southern boundary of the commune into the Rhone and marks the departmental boundary with Bouches-du-Rhône. It is a river that is considered "capricious"...
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Place Jean-Macé, Lyon (category Squares in Lyon)
(now rue Elie Rochette), forming an enclosed square. Built in the first part of the 19th century, the fort du Colombier and the wall that connected the height...
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Saône (category Tributaries of the Rhône)
France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île...
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Starry Night Over the Rhône, is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night. It was painted on the bank of the Rhône that was only a one or...
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Roquemaure, Gard (category Populated places on the Rhône)
including some classified as Côtes du Rhône Appellation d'origine contrôlée. Roquemaure lies on the right (west) bank of the Rhône, at the eastern end of a narrow...
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Montagne Sainte-Victoire (category Landforms of Bouches-du-Rhône)
Bouches-du-Rhône and Var. Its highest point is the Pic des mouches at 1,011 metres (3,317 ft); this is not however the highest point in Bouches-du-Rhône, which...
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Montmajour Abbey (category Churches in Bouches-du-Rhône)
originally an island five kilometers north of Arles, in what is now the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, in the region of Provence in the south of France. The abbey...
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Camargue marshes and wetlands of the Rhône delta, which covers part of the départements of Gard and Bouches-du-Rhône. There they developed the stamina,...
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Ardèche (category Departments of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
pronounced [aɾˈdet͡ʃɔ]; Arpitan: Ardecha) is a department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Southeastern France. It is named after the river Ardèche and had...
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Place Bellecour (redirect from Bellecour square)
UNESCO World Heritage Site. This square forms the central focus of the Presqu'île (peninsula), between the Saône and the Rhône, in the 2nd arrondissement of...
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Vienne, Isère (category Populated places on the Rhône)
the Gère and the Rhône. It is the fourth-largest commune in the Isère department, of which it is a subprefecture alongside La Tour-du-Pin. Vienne was a...
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Coteaux du Languedoc, Coteaux de Pierrevert, Coteaux Varois, Côtes du Luberon, Coteaux du Tricastin, Côtes de Provence, Côtes du Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Villages...
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Eyragues (category Communes of Bouches-du-Rhône)
it has a weekly market on Fridays in the large village square. Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in...
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Valais (redirect from Canton du Valais)
canton du Valais (French) or Republik und Kanton Wallis (German). This translates into Republic and Canton of Valais. The Romans called the upper Rhône valley...
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Aigues-Mortes (section Saint-Louis Square)
preserved. Situated on the junction of the Canal du Rhône à Sète and the Chenal Maritime to Le Grau-du-Roi, the town is a transit center for canal craft...
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Gascony. 13% lay in the Rhône-Alpes région, covering the département of Ardèche, which accounted for 12.7% of the territory of Rhône-Alpes. 6.7% lay in the...
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Gier (river) (category Tributaries of the Rhône)
flows in a northeast direction through the Loire and Rhône departments. It is a tributary of the Rhône, which it enters from the right bank. The Gier valley...
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Haute-Savoie (category Departments of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
Haute-Savoie (pronounced [ot savwa] ) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy...
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Castellane is a historic square in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It was built in 1774. The square was named for Henri-César...
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