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French Riviera

French Riviera is the Mediterranean coast in the southeastern corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco. There is no official limit, but is usually considered to stretch from the Italian border in the east to Saint Tropez, Hyeres or Cassis in the west. French Riviera beaches covering 560 kilometers and consists of both sand and shingle beach.

French Riviera is often a place of choice of celebrities when they want to hold a private party at a hidden beach. As an example celebrities Lily Allen, Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are some celebrities who have enjoyed its beauty. One of the most favorite spot of the world famous star is Saint-Tropez. The city has an amazing beach, complete with luxury hotels and yachts. That said, the movie stars' Pirates of the Caribbean "Johnny Depp is so bound by its beauty that he decided to buy a house there.

Zoo Beauval

Zoo Beauval in France originally opened in 1980 as an aviary, housing more than 2,000 species of birds alone. Not until more than 10 years later when another animal is introduced to the habitat and the zoo has grown to more than 4,000 animals. Favorites including two white tiger zoo, known as Gorby and Rais, and the twins manatees, known as the Quito and Luna.

Park has been arranged to give visitors a feeling that they actually see the animals in their home territory. There is for example an area of more than 3 acres submitted for re-creation of an Plain neighborhood of Africa where zebras, giraffes, rhinos and other antelope roam freely.

There is also a large area of 5 acres for the collection of elephants. The park has more than 40 big cats including lions, leopards, tigers and their famous white jaguar.
You can walk through the tropical greenhouses where exotic birds fly freely around you and be able to see the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans from close range. The park is also the only place to see amazing manatees (sea cows) in France.
There is a 1500 seat arena where an hour long good look in the water with sea-lions and in the air by an array of birds of prayer is quite a spectacle.

Château de Chenonceau

Château de Chenonceau (French: [ʃa.to də ʃə.nɔ̃.so]) is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme. And it is one of home good and beautiful in the world.

Château de Chambord

The royal Château de Chambord at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinct French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Italian structures.

Château de Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley; it was built to serve as a hunting lodge for François I, who maintained his royal residences at Château de Blois and Château d'Amboise. The original design of the Château de Chambord is attributed, though with several doubts, to Domenico da Cortona. Some authors claim that the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme had a considerable role in the château's design, and others have suggested that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed it.

Chambord was altered considerably during the twenty years of its construction, (1519–1547), during which it was overseen on-site by Pierre Nepveu. With the château nearing completion, François showed off his enormous symbol of wealth and power by hosting his old archnemesis, Emperor Charles V at Chambord.

Calmar is one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in the world

Calmar is one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in the world. The city is much sought after by tourists the world for honeymooners and recreation.

In 2006, the city of Colmar had a population of 65,713 and the metropolitan area of Colmar had a population of 120,367. Colmar is the center of the arrondissement of Colmar, which has 144,700 inhabitants in 2006.

Colmar is the home town of the painter and engraver Martin Schongauer and the sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. The city is renowned for its well preserved old town, its numerous architectural landmarks and its museums, among which the Unterlinden Museum.

The Great Dune of Pyla, France

The desert is synonymous with Africa at all, and we know that Europe has no deserts, sand dunes at best only mediocre. But this assumption is wrong. Europe appears to have a unique dune Pyla ie, the length of 3 km, width of 500 m and a height of 100 meters. This very steep sand hill overlooking part of this hutan.Tempat famous for being the place of paragliding activity. Besides the uniqueness of the dunes, which is also amazing is the surrounding landscape from the heights where we could see the sea and forest. Because the dunes are much higher than the forest, so that from the dunes we could see everything.

Eiffel Tower-Best of Tower

Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars on the banks of the River Seine in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and one of the world famous structure.

History

This structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance to Exposition, World's Fair that celebrated the French Revolution a century. Actually planning to build the Eiffel tower in Barcelona, for the Universal Exhibition of 1888, but the responsible parties in Barcelona city hall thought strange and expensive, and does not fit with the city. After the rejection of Plan of Barcelona, Eiffel send the draft to the party responsible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he built the tower a year later, in 1889. The tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889, and opened on May 6. Three hundred workers joined together 18,083 of iron unders (a pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million of nails, in the form of structural by Maurice Koechlin. The risk of accident is very great, to modern skyscrapers the tower is unusual open without the middle level except the two platforms. However, because Eiffel took care, including use of the moving pulley block, auxiliary rails and screens, only one person who died.
Landscape Construction of the Eiffel Tower: the first level

The tower is getting criticism from the public when it was built, calling it disturbing eyes. Daily newspapers are filled with letters of criticism from the art community in Paris. One of them included in the publication of the U.S. Government Publishing Office of William Watson of the Paris Universal Exhibition of Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture 1892. "And for twenty years we have seen, extends to the entire city, still lived by those geniuses for centuries, we see a stretch like a black shadow of the black columns are built of sheet iron spikes." [10] The signing of this letter includes Messonier , Gounod, Garnier, Gerome, Bougeureau, and Dumas.

Eiffel tower standing licensed for 20 years, which means it must be dismantled in 1909, when ownership transferred to the City of Paris. The city had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower that easily demolished) but after this tower proved extremely profitable in terms of communication, the tower was left standing after the permit expires. The military uses it to arrange a taxi Paris on the front lines during the Battle of the Marne First, and a monument to the victory of the battle.