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Erik Krause
Taken 10:30, 03/06/2006
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The living room in La Crueize holiday homeThe World > Europe > France > Languedoc-Roussillon |
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The holiday home origins from 13th century and was carefully renovated to preserve the medieval ambiance. Nevertheless it offers basic comfort like f.ee. a hi-fi unit. More information on La Crueize home page
The holiday home origins from 13th century and was carefully renovated to preserve the medieval ambia...
The peacocks promenade in front of the old stone houses in the late afternoon sunlight. They belong t...
A few hundred meters from the small farm and the holiday home of La Crueize there is the chapel of St...
The bell of the broken chapel has been mounted some meters above the chapel on the summit of the smal...
The menhir de la Pierre Plantée is one of the largest menhirs of southern france. It is situated not ...
In May 1996, the Musée du Haribo sweets at the production site has opened Uzès. Since the over 100,00...
Languedoc-Roussillon is a French region which is composed of five departments. It is bounded by Spain, Andorra in the south and along the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions). Other French region limit the regions of Languedoc-Roussillon: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Rhone-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrenees. The natural boundaries are the Pyrenees and the so-called threshold Lauragais, the Cévennes and the Rhône.
In 2004, the Regional Council chose a joint new logo symbolizes the sun, which has the motto: "Living in Septimania. In fact, the current president of the Regional Council, Georges Freche wanted to rename the area "Septimania", but then it has to do so. Septimania is an old name, used since the fifth century for the region, but the Department of Lozère was not yet among them. Above all, the Catalans rejected by an overwhelming majority of this amendment. After numerous protests, including a demonstration of about 8,000 people on the 8th October 2005 in Perpignan, Georges Freche was the project of Bezeichnugsänderung in "Septimania" and the name of the region Languedoc-Roussillon "is introduced as an official designation for the Regon.
The languages of the region along with French, Occitan (Languedoc, Auvergne, Provence), and Catalan. The name of the region favors Lengadòc-Rosselhon Occitan and Catalan Rosselló-Llenguadoc.