France

By Robyn Kirwan

MILLAU BRIDGE

• Millau bridge is in central France • The bridge is 70km• The tour de France goes along this bridge

Beaches

• Porto pollo

• Paloma plage

• Argeles plage

Rivers

• The river loire is 1.012 km. Its mouth is the Atlantic ocean.

• Seine river is 776 km. Its mouth is the English channel

• Rhone river is 812 km. its mouth is the Mediterranean sea

• The two seas the are around France are the English channel and the mediterranean sea

Bordering Countries

• The countries that border France are Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy

Eiffel tower

• The Eiffel tower is in Paris • Its 324 meters which is about the size of an

81 storey house• The tower received 250 million visitors in

2010• Its named after an engineer called Gustave

Eiffel• The Eiffel tower has three levels for visitors

Sport • Football is the most popular sport in France.• The first football club was introduced to France in

1863 by British immigrants• Rugby was introduced in 1872. • The tour de France is a cycling race. The winners from

the past years are • Fabian Gancellara in 2010• Robert Gensink in 2011• Peter Veltis in 2012• Christopher Froome 2013

Painting and painters

• Baroque is painted by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain

• Impressionism

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