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Pernes-les-Fontaines
Vaucluse


Pernes-les-Fontaines, ancient city at the foot of Mont Ventoux, was capital of the Comtat Venaissin until 1320. It is famous for its 40 fountains (of which 10 are classified as historic monuments), for his mansions of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century for itswalls and doors, for the keep of the Castle of the Counts of Toulouse, for his Tour Ferrande magnificent frescoes of the thirteenth century, for his chapel, for his Roman Church, for its Cross-Covered (the last existing Provence), but also for its life, its gardens, alleyways and squares. Pernes-les-Fontainees is proud of its traditions, it reveals through its comtadin museum, in a true store of the nineteenth century, its traditions museum, at the home of Spirit Fléchier famous speaker of the court of the Sun King and his museum of the Old School in the small town hall in the 1930's Hamlet Valayans. Pernes-les-Fontaines is a welcoming city, with its Office of Tourism, your camper, its hotels, its guest rooms, restaurants, shops, landscapes, the hills.
Pernes-les-Fontaines is also a place famous for production of fruits and vegetables from Provence (strawberries, melons, cherries, asparagus and grapes), we drink the great wine of the Côtes du Ventoux and enjoy it in its many restaurants, Provençal cuisine. With its label "cities and Art trades ", you will discover the craft in its purest tradition. Pernes-les-Fontaines is a town full of color with its weekly market, numerous and various summer events (Arts in the street, Pernes photos, Melon Festival, Feria, Folklore Festival of Music and Drama street, night of legends ,...), its Christmas traditions, the sun, his accent and Heritage Festival celebrated every four years (next in September 2004).

Pézenas
Hérault

Located in the Hérault, between Béziers and Montpellier, 25 km from the Mediterranean, the country has Pézenas qualified Pays d'Art et d'Histoire awarded by the Ministry of Culture. The historic center of Pezenas, classified as "protected sector", keeps the charm of its hotels, at the courtyard or garden, and its cobblestone streets. The governors of Languedoc (Montmorency and the Prince de Conti) have made it their capital. From its prestigious past, Pézenas keeps a homogeneous architectural XVth to the XVIIIth century. Molière stayed and Boby Lapointe, a native of Pézenas, spent all his youth before writing his first songs in Paris. Mardi Gras is the celebration of Pezenas and its animal totem since 1226: the Poulain. The summer begins with the Mirondela dels Arts, including street entertainment, exhibitions and shows. Some animations are nocturnal opening shops on Wednesdays and Fridays in the summer, visits dramatized in the evening. Show re-enactment: "Pézenas in the sight Molière" (June 21 and 22). The 3emeweekend of September took place the Heritage Days and the 1st weekend of October the International Festival of the Image Maker.
The Saturday market and fairs to flea market in May and October the local rhythm. Pezenas is also City of Traditional Arts; thirty craftsmen-designers costume designers, puppeteers, mosaic artists, jewelers, modistes, metalworkers, stone masons, carpenters, potters working in the year.
Small Pâtés, specialty "salty-sweet" based on sheep, made in 1768 by Lord Clive, Governor of the Indies, yet enjoy it as well as berlingots, sweets with different natural flavors, made by craftsmen from two or three centuries ( visit the factory in the morning by appointment).

Pont-Audemer
Eure

A1 h 30 de Paris, the center of the triangle formed by the regional capitals Rouen, Caen and Le Havre, Pont-Audemer is a true heart of life. Surrounded by wooded hills, rich meadows, ponds built, it offers the pleasures of relaxation varied. Its development was held at a point where the sea water to yield fresh water, the rock star of the valley floor between which the river branches into many channels. Nested in each other, memories of the time when they shake in the fortifications, the houses have undergone only small changes to help them come slowly in this century maintaining their authenticity.
The frame is smooth, it may display a certain ease without being ostentatious, like habitat merchants tanners, which since the Middle Ages, experienced in Pont-Audemer a true prosperity. Sometimes, in response to these beautiful architectural elements in fine lines, the habitat is more modest, as these small houses with wood, hung along the canals and accompanied by drying skin clear path. They housed workers and artisans. Around the church remarkable for windows and the organ considered and its cobbled old preserved, Pont Audemer has everything to become a city museum. But, to be the cream of local values, but prefers to restore the house of Alfred Canel rich collections, a small firm Amateur increased temporary exhibition rooms, he says. Is its image. The city itself has never stopped, it grows with beauty and enthusiasm by developing areas of activity to the treatment.
The life here is also a theater and music major, and the pleasures here is the greed. Chocolate, Caterer or cheese have marked many memories. Cafes and restaurants filled terraces from May to November. Markets Monday and Friday are a large part of downtown. Les, stalls dies garden space, pots smoking sausage, live poultry are so authentic that some speak of atmosphere unreal.

Prades
Pyrénées-Orientales

Prades, at the heart of the swell, the upper part of the plain of Roussillon, is south on the foothills of the sacred mountain of the Catalans, the Canigou, and extends north side on the alluvial basins of Tet. At the foot of the mountain area of the department, Prades enjoys an exceptional view on the drains of the Pyrenees. His church is lavishly furnished with Baroque altarpieces (the largest in France at the high altar), and to discover his treasure composed of the furniture of the nearby Benedictine abbey, Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, jewels of the Romanesque art. The heart of town, with its fountains, laundries, home ... Jacomet hosts every Tuesday morning a very large market attracting many picturesque conflentois and every Saturday morning the market for local producers. The town and its surroundings have a particularly rich heritage taking both local (Pablo Casals Museum and Martin Vives, silk museum ,...) as those of surrounding abbeys of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa and Saint-Martin-du-Canigou, Villefranche de swell city founded in 1090 with its medieval ramparts, the fort Liberia built by Vauban, and Mosset Tour des Parfums, the site of Eus ...
The highlight of the summer season, the Chamber Music Festival "Pablo Casals", created by the developer in 1950, has become an international meeting that attracts more than 8,000 people from July 26 to August 13 Summer also includes other major events such as the Days Romanes, the Ciné-Rencontres, the Catalan Summer University, ...

Redon
Ille-et-Vilaine

Ker vihan, brud Vraza! Small town, famous "
Southern Brittany between Rennes, Nantes and Vannes, at the crossroads of the Oust and Vilaine, the two largest rivers of Brittany, Redon "The Venice of the West", home of Brittany, is a small city that has its importance to the development of a Benedictine abbey, once very influential founded in 832 by Conwoïon. Of marriage between the Earth and Water, born a commercial port. Seaport of Rennes, he knows a certain splendor through an intense activity, so the ships of the Compagnie des Indes back in Redon with spices, fabrics, rare woods, jewelry ... In the mid-nineteenth century, the opening of the Canal from Nantes to Brest Redon gives its new architecture and is the crossroads of waterways in the west.
In the streets pedestrian (XVII), the salt Granaries, Hotel Carmoy, Tour Richelieu (when it is commendataire abbot of Redon), the castle Mail (XVIII), the owners of houses (XVIIth-XVIIIth ), the half-timbered houses, the monastery of Calvairiennes (XVII) are reviving their prestigious past. The building major Abbey St Sauveur (with its Romanesque tower XIIeme triple floor) was a catalyst cultural, spiritual, political and economic of the Duchy of Brittany. Redon will revive his reputation, in returning this summer, a step on the road to St Jacques de Compostela (inauguration of the "European Cultural Route" July 25). Deserted by the three masts, the commercial port is intended to the marina, more than 3000 vessels each year crossing the lock basin. To discover the Brittany canals by boat trips and rental Pénichettes. Highlights: Touring the West France (1er/06) in July-August: Friday Harbor (chants of sailors) and Thursday: initiation dances of Brittany in October: month of brown, chapter of the Confraternity of the Brown, Fair Teillouse and Bogue d'Or (25-26/10), Salon du Livre Ancien et d'Occasion (15-16/11) and December: Christmas markets and the Advent calendar for children. Take a visit of the city flower (4 flowers): Market Monday.

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