Culture, Architecture, cuisineFashion, Cinema, Music, Painting

France COUNTRY, WHICH IS FULL OF SIGHTS

Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,Spain are those

Europian countries

that share a border

with France.

Paris. The capital city, and at the same

time the larges city in France is Paris.

The Seine river runs

through the oldest part of Paris,

and divides it into two parts,

known as the Left Bank and the Right Bank.

It is surrounded by many forests.

Paris is also the centre of

French economy, politics, traffic 

and culture.

Paris has many art museums

 and historical buildings. As a

traffic centre, Paris has a very

good underground subway 

system, airports and stations.

SOME REMARKABLE

AND BEAUTIFUL

PLACES OF FRANCE

The Verdon Gorge   in south-eastern France is a river canyon that is often considered to be one of Europe's most beautiful.

Marseille  known in antiquity as Massalia   is

the second largest city in France after Paris and the centre of the third largest metropolitan area in France after Paris and Lyon.

 In the center of the island Bora Bora are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 727 meters

THE Dordogne river. The Dordogne (Occitan: Dordonha) is a

river in south-central and southwest France.

Music

Although the musical creation in France dates back to the Middle Ages, it knew its golden age in the 17th century thanksto Louis XIV, who employed several musicians and composers in the royal court.

CINEMA

France has historical and strong links with cinema. It is two Frenchmen, Auguste and Louis Lumière who created the cinema in 1895. More recently, in 2006, France produced more films than any other European country. Cannes Festival is one of the most important and famous film festivals in the world.

Culture France has been a center of

cultural creation for centuries. Many French artists have been among the most renowned of their time, and France is still recognized in the world for its rich cultural tradition.

France receives the highest number of tourists per year, largely thanksto the numerous cultural establishments and historical buildings implanted all over the territory. It counts 1,200 museums welcoming more than 50 million people annually. The most important cultural sites are run by the government, for example through the public agency Centre des monuments nationaux, which have around a hundred national historical monuments at charge

Architecture The end of the Hundred Years' War marked an

important stage in the evolution of French architecture. It was the time of the French Renaissance and several artists from Italy and Spain were invited to the French court; many residential palaces, inspired by the Italians, were built. and the end of the Middle Ages, Baroque Architecture replaced the traditional Gothic style. However, in France, baroque architecture found a greater success in the secular domain than in a religious one.

Eiffel Tower When discussing French

architecture, it is impossible not to review Eiffel Tower which , has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizablestructures in the world. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world;

THE Eiffel Tower.the Eiffel Tower was built by

Gustave Eiffel for the 100th

year of the French freedom.. At first,

the Eiffel Tower was to be made

in Barcelona, Spain, but the people

of Barcelona did not want itWhen the tower was built, it was only meant to be kept for 20 years. People did not like the Eiffel Tower and wanted it taken down. After the 20 years , the tower became the property of Paris again. By this time, the city had learned that the tower could be used to help with communications. The military used the tower to communicate during battle. When the tower was used in the capture of the spy, "Mata Hari", nobody wanted it taken apart

Art

Painting The origins of French painting were very much influenced by Flemish art and by

Italian art at the time of the Renaissance. The Renaissance painting School of Fontainebleau was directly inspired by Italian painters such as Primaticcio and Rosso Fiorentino, who both worked in France. Two of the most famous French artists of the time of Baroque era, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain, lived in Italy.

French cuisine French cuisine is a style of food preparation originating from

France that has developed from centuries of social change. In the Middle Ages, Guillaume Tirel a.k.a. Taillevent, a court chef, authored Le Viandier, one of the earliest recipe collections of Medieval France.

Breakfast There are many dishes that are considered part of the

nation's national cuisine today. breakfast is often quick consisting of slices of French bread,

with jelly or jam. a pastry filled with chocolate along with coffee or tea. Children often drink hot chocolate in bowls along with their breakfasts.

Lunch and Dinner In large cities, a majority of working people

and students eat their lunch at a corporate or school cafeteria, which normally serve complete meals it is therefore not usual for students to bring their own lunch food.

dinner often consists of three courses: introductory course, sometimes soup, main course and a cheese course or dessert, sometimes with a salad offered before the cheese or dessert. Yogurt may replace the cheese course, while a simple dessert would be fresh fruit.

Thanks for your attention. We hope, by this presentation we worked so hard on, you got a little more to know about this really beautiful country called France, with its great amount of remarkable monuments and sights.