The strategic position of the town of Blaye explains the establishment of a castle from the early Middle Age which was the residence of the young king of Aquitaine Caribert II in the VIIth century. This medieval castle, remodeled several times over the centuries was finally integrated into the Vauban ... Read more

Saint-Philibert de Tournus is a former monastery. Monument complex, the abbey of Tournus is a crypt, itself composed of several spaces, a ground floor, with choir with ambulatory with five radiating chapels, transept chapels directed to, three-aisled nave increased two chapels to the north, and preliminary three-aisled nave as ... Read more

Initially it was a Celtic tribe, who would have settled in this region and have founded the ancient capital of Arécomic Volques. In 738, the Charles Martel's Franks razed and burned the city. This was certainly during those dark times that the ... Read more

The town was initially where a Celtic tribe would have settled in this region. Built in the late first century, the amphitheatre of Nimes, one of the best preserved in the world, measure 133 meters long and 101 metres wide. The facade, ... Read more

The Conciergerie is the largest remnant of the old Palais de la Cité, which was the residence and seat of power of the kings of France, the tenth to fourteenth century and extended over the site covering the current Courthouse in ... Read more

The hotel National of the Invalides in Paris is a monument whose construction was ordered by Louis XIV by the order of 24 February 1670, to house his armies invalids. Located in the plain of Grenelle, then suburb of Paris, the ... Read more