well-suited to the majority of the acid silt soils of the neighboring Sainte-Maure Plateau; the falun deposits, in fact, represent only a few patches in a landscape...

classified Natura 2000, extends between the Cher Valley, Sainte-Maure de Touraine Plateau and Gâtine Tourangelle of Loches. Composed of two limestone...

the village of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in Occitanie Sainte-Maure de Touraine — the town of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine in the Loire valley Selles-sur-Cher — the...

include: The Massif des Maures (771 m) and Massif de l'Esterel, along the coast, (618 m) are made of quartz rock. The Sainte-Baume mountain ridge (1,147...

Fréjus. Its highest point is the signal de la Sauvette, 780 metres high. The name is a souvenir of the Moors (Maures in Old French), Arabs and Berbers from...

appears in a 1052 donation charter issued by Goscelin de Sainte-Maure. The lord of Sainte-Maure agreed to cede to the monks of the Louroux the right to...

sweet young queen". Benoit de Sainte-Maure wrote of the "Queen of Beauty and largesse" in the Roman de Troie, while Philippe de Thaun wrote "God save Lady...

The church of Sainte-Cécile de Cos (Catalan: Santa Cecília de Cos or Santa Cecília de Coç) is a pre-Romanesque and Romanesque church built between the...

Palace of Meudon, is a French castle in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. At the edge of a wooded plateau, the castle offers views of Paris and the Seine, as well...

the Massif des Maures, which does not belong to the Alpine system either tectonically or geologically the Monts de Vaucluse, Montagne de Lure and the Luberon...

villages of Cap de Lalanne and Le Plateau. Some 40% of the commune is residential with the balance farmland with patches of forest. The Gave de Pau flows north-west...

Bayonne Olympic Club, created in 1972, is located in the district of Hauts de Sainte-Croix. The club offers a wide range of sports including pelote, gymnastics...

région. It forms part of the arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, and of the canton of Oloron-Sainte-Marie-2. Laruns is geographically the third-largest...

churches such as St-Jean-Baptiste, Sainte-Bernadette and Sainte-Thérèse. The Château de Pau dominates the Gave de Pau. Its two oldest towers date from...

The 2016–17 Coupe de France First preliminary rounds comprised the first rounds of the 2016–17 Coupe de France preliminary rounds. The competition was...

belong to the Upper Triassic. Up North, we can see a long bar of stony plateau, with summits made of Jurassic limestones, sometimes intersected by deep...

descendants likewise maintained this practice or resided in the Château de Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine [fr]. Due to a lack of financial resources, the château-neuf...

création de la réserve naturelle des Bouches de Bonifacio". Légifrance. "Décret n° 2009-614 du 3 juin 2009 pris pour l'adaptation de la délimitation et de la...

arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie and the canton of Oloron-Sainte-Marie-1. Arrete is located some 15 km south by south-west of Oloron-Sainte-Marie and some...

castle once occupied the western extremity of the town, on the side of the plateau. A passage under the bell tower of Saint Nicholas Church allows access...

The 2015–16 Coupe de France preliminary rounds made up the qualifying competition to decide which teams took part in the main competition from Round 7...

monuments on the slopes and mountain plateaus of the region. It is located some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the east of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and the Bay of Biscay, in the...

region in southwestern France. Accous is located some 30 km south of Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Aspe Valley, one of the three valleys of the High-Béarn, the...

Chapter: Titles of the Chapter of Bayonne Saint-Claire: Titles of the Abbey of Sainte-Claire of Bayonne Based on discoveries made, the oldest land in Anglet dates...

tongue Little bustard The town of Chambourg-sur-Indre is located near Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine where a goat cheese is produced that has geographical indications...

department of the Var between the Mediterranean Sea and the Gorges du Verdon/Lac Sainte Croix. The town can be reached via the A8 motorway (20 km away) or the SNCF...

promontory in the middle of the plain, near the gorges du Verdon and lac de Sainte-Croix. The towers of the fortifications still overlook a charming village...

Château-Renault is located on the Far-West of the Gâtine Tourangelle plateau, next to the Loir-et-Cher department and at the confluence of two rivers :...

said that etymologically the name comes from the Gascon Balèch meaning "plateau". The following table details the origins of the commune name and other...

with the southern part mostly farmland. The commune lies on a limestone plateau with an area of 1,391 hectares and its altitude varying between 183m in...