The Most Beautiful Villages of France

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Most beautiful
Villages of Jaranee
DOMINIQUE REPERANT
Here is a visual celebration of France's most beautiful and perfectly preserved medieval villages. Spectacular color photographs capture their regional ambience and special character, while detailed texts explain the foundation of each village and the growth of the community.
The demands of defence and trade intertwine, from the walled bastides of the Southwest, with their great market squares, to the hill-top refuges of the Mediterranean, precariously perched and turned toward the sun. Each village is a harmonious marriage of architecture and landscape: the ancient timber buildings of Saint-Veran are surrounded by alpine forests; the stardingly rosy village of CoUanges-la-Rouge is named for the local red sandstone of which it is made. Here too are Mont-Saint-Michel, Vezelay and Conques, where settlements cluster around majestic monuments from the Middle Ages.
Complementing the selection of villages is a list of nearby... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Most beautiful
Villages of Jaranee
DOMINIQUE REPERANT
Here is a visual celebration of France's most beautiful and perfectly preserved medieval villages. Spectacular color photographs capture their regional ambience and special character, while detailed texts explain the foundation of each village and the growth of the community.
The demands of defence and trade intertwine, from the walled bastides of the Southwest, with their great market squares, to the hill-top refuges of the Mediterranean, precariously perched and turned toward the sun. Each village is a harmonious marriage of architecture and landscape: the ancient timber buildings of Saint-Veran are surrounded by alpine forests; the stardingly rosy village of CoUanges-la-Rouge is named for the local red sandstone of which it is made. Here too are Mont-Saint-Michel, Vezelay and Conques, where settlements cluster around majestic monuments from the Middle Ages.
Complementing the selection of villages is a list of nearby hotels and restaurants, with details of prices and menus. An extended list of protected villages will prove a useful guide for travelers to France and for all those with an interest in architectural preservation.

"A stunning photographic collection of medieval French villages in often breathtakingly beautiful surroundings." ¦Libraiy Journal
"Slighdy more beautiful than the least beautiful villages of France. In short, a feast." -Philadelphia Inquirer
With rtiS illustrations, 164 in color, and one map.
On the Jacket:
Front: A view from the castle of the medieval streets of Turenne. Back The village of Penne, buUt beneath a rock, is one of the most breathtaking sites in the gorge of Aveyron. Vissza