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A holy city, a secular city, the capital of an empire and then of a faith, Rome cannot be visited: it has to be read and deciphered. You walk through it as if you were turning the pages of a historical novel, sometimes written in the ink of Seneca, sometimes...
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There are places that you don't pass through. You stay, you linger, you return. Salies-de-Béarn, hemmed in by the meandering Saleys river, is one of them. This small town in the Béarn region, whose name seems to ooze salt,...
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At the beginning of December 2024, the dance of the Intore, the ancient warriors of the Land of a Thousand Hills, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This war dance is the pride of the members of Rwanda's national ballet, guardians of the country's heritage...
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It's at sunrise, through the plane's windows, that we discover Uzbekistan, in particular the Khorezm region, a vast area of oases on the lower course of the Amu Darya, the Oxus of the Greeks. Thirty-five kilometres separate Ourguench airport from Khiva, our...
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At the heart of Central Asia and at the crossroads of the caravan routes known as the "Silk Roads" that lead us to an imagined enchanting Orient, Uzbekistan brings together the treasures of the civilisations that have crossed, collided and succeeded one another. Fragments...
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In the old town of Beauce, the cathedral is celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of its crypt and the reopening to the public of the Saint-Piat chapel, where the "treasure" is on display. According to Mgr Philippe Christory, Bishop of Chartres, this is not a...
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At the crossroads of Touraine, Anjou and Poitou, the town of Richelieu is a unique example of 17th-century town planning in France. Situated in the department of Indre-et-Loire, the town, or rather the market town (1,700 inhabitants), surrounded by ramparts...
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In La Riche, 3 km from Tours, the priory of St Cosme was founded in the 11th century to welcome pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela. It was the home of Ronsard, prior from 1565 to 1585. copyright C....
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A privileged witness of the Renaissance, Pierre de Ronsard, leader of the Pléiade along with Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560), was a great poet, a good Christian and even a good religious. This year marks the 500th anniversary of his...
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