Parking Car at the Formigal Ski Resort
When you get to Formigal, find a roundabout where the deviation is to the Formigal people, the first of car parks, the sixes, or to follow the road to France and other car parks and ski areas.
Each Valley has its own parking, and, by order, you are sixes, Pyrenean mountain goats, Anayet and Portalet. In the first (sixth) and the last (Portalet), the parking find you along the road. In the other two, you have to deviate from the road.
Of the latter, you must know to upload to Pyrenean mountain goats, the second parking of the station, there to climb a mini port, and when this very snowy is dangerous, and sometimes they are closed because they are complicated curves. In addition, if this snowing, the car can skate. It is certainly the area more complicated to access the station of Formigal. Continue reading
The Eiffel Tower an indisputable logo
If there is anything that you can not visit in France is the Eiffel Tower, that beyond being criticized at the time it opened in 1889, today is undoubtedly the logo with the most associated with France.
It has a height of 300 meters and weighs 7300 tons. At the top of it, you can see the entire city of Paris.
But this monument not only allows us to see the whole city, but also offers, in the same restaurants, shopping and to even a museum. And getting there is tricky, because all means of transport to get there (though some, like the metro, have your station a few blocks from her).
One can opt to climb the tower on foot or by elevator. However, access to the summit can only be reached by elevator. Those who climb it on foot would cost them $ 5, while those who come up through the elevator will pay 10 euros. It is clear that the elevators are highly secure and reliable. Continue reading
Mont Saint Michel, The Archangel Mount
No doubt the Mont Saint Michel is one of the most impressive sights of the country, which owes its name to the abbey dedicated to the worship of Saint Michel Archangel (San Miguel). This island is the busiest of Normandy and one of the first resorts in France.
Mont Saint Michel is a rocky island that houses a medieval abbey, a majestic architecture. The amazing thing about this place is not only based solely on their beauty, but the strangeness of the place is that one can see, where he has made the trip safely to enter the abbey began to be covered by rising tide to completely cover the island and leave only the construction with the appearance of floating in the ocean. Not for nothing gets about three million two hundred thousand tourists a year.
Also the island in ancient times the Celtic tribes had occupied Scissy forest, near the mountain, and approached him to indulge his services. According to Gil Deric, historian of the eighteenth century, the rock was dedicated under the name “My vel Beneneni Tomb,” “Monte Belenus or tomb,” Gaulish god of the sun. Continue reading
Travel tip: Avignon
We went today to one of the most picturesque cities in France: Avignon. It is located on the left bank of the Rhone River, about 653 km southeast of Paris and 80 km northwest of Marseille.
In the Middle Ages, this magnificent city in southern France was the seat of the papacy from 1309 until 1377. From then until 1417, the Great Schism provoked papal venues were two. Avignon and Rome, resolved the conflict in favor of the Pope of Rome.
In that past, Avignon, has great artistic treasure that has achieved membership in the list of World Heritage of UNESCO since 1995. Especially the Papal Palace, the largest Gothic buildings of the Middle Ages with over 11,000 square meters. Its walls reach 5 meters in thickness!
It is located on the Place du Palais des Papes, on a hill overlooking the city from the north with the River Rhone at his feet. Continue reading
The town of Vezelay in France
Vezelay is tiny, is located in central France and climbs over the crest of a hill; because that’s how cities were built give the Middle Ages to defend major. Con few hundred inhabitants, has two luxuries that travelers sensitized should not skip.
On one side is the great basilica of Vezelay Square facing spot with his strong Roman and after 700 years attests to the power of faith in a time where nothing was secular. Furthermore, Vezelay has the surrounding landscape, a horizon of valleys and gentle slopes of almost incomparable beauty, whose distance can be seen from anywhere in the city. Continue reading