Tignes le lac - By flyprod
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Flyprod.aerial - Franck Marchand Maillet
Pris 14:00, 25/01/2011
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Tignes est une commune française, située en Haute Tarentaise, dans le département de la Savoie et la région Rhône-Alpes, à l'origine petit village de montagne détruit et englouti suite à la construction du barrage du Chevril, inauguré en 1952. Sur ses hauteurs, Tignes devient durant les décennies suivantes une station de ski implantée à plus de 2 000 m d'altitude sur deux sites principaux (Tignes le Lac et Tignes Val Claret) et internationalement réputée pour son domaine skiable couplé avec celui de Val d'Isère sous l'appellation Espace Killy.
Le barrage du Chevril, également appelé barrage de Tignes, est située en Tarentaise, dans la haute va...
Taken at the top of the mountain. perfect sky.
Small lake on flanks of the Bellecote. (Petit lac au dessous le bellecote)
hamlet of Nancroix in the French Alps, Savoie. Massif de Vanoise.
Petite ballade en direction du refuge de la Vanoise, depuis Pralognan, sur la GR55. La grande Casse e...
La plus petite des Grandes Stations de ski, au coeur de Paradiski !Peisey-Vallandry, c'est 5 villages...
Situé au coeur des Alpes, aux pieds des pistes, Arc 1800 est une Sation de ski idéal pour passer des ...
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.
