Les Calanques: Sugiton
par Erik Krause
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Situated between Marseille and Cassis Les Calanques is one of the most beautiful parts of the French Mediterranean coast. No hotels, no holiday resorts spoil the few kilometers of white rocks plunging directly into the blue sea. The hiking trails sometimes have passages which somewhere else would qualify as rock climbing and the rock climbs are exceptional.
une vue sur "le torpilleur", entre la calanque de "sugiton" et celle de "pierres tombées"
Le mont Puget, nommé en l'honneur du célèbre sculpteur et archictecte marseillai...
Le mont Puget, nommé en l'honneur du célèbre sculpteur et archictecte marseillai...
This is a view from Calanques, between Cassis and Marseilles. This cliff is situated on the hikin...
This is the start of the climbing route, next to Aiguille de L'Eissadon. Situated in the Calanques, e...
En-vau, le vallon, la vallée en provençal, un véritable condensé entre la...
France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.
French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.
The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.
The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.
The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.
One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.
During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.
France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.
Text by Steve Smith.
