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Best Places to Visit guide
Top 5 locations in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
byAsaf Lev-Ari
Live update: Updated May 11, 2022Copy link
Copy link1. Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
Asaf Lev-AriKnown as the 'Romanesque Sistine Chapel', the Abbey-Church of Saint-Savin contains many beautiful 11th- and 12th-century murals which are still in a remarkable state of preservation.
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2. Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:Asaf Lev-AriSantiago de Compostela was the supreme goal for countless thousands of pious pilgrims who converged there from all over Europe throughout the Middle Ages. To reach Spain pilgrims had to pass through France, and the group of important historical monuments included in this inscription marks out the four routes by which they did so.
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3. Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:Asaf Lev-AriThe Port of the Moon, port city of Bordeaux in south-west France, is inscribed as an inhabited historic city, an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble, created in the age of the Enlightenment, whose values continued up to the first half of the 20th century, with more protected buildings than any other French city except Paris. It is also recognized for its historic role as a place of exchange of cultural values over more than 2,000 years, particularly since the 12th century due to commercial links with Britain and the Low Lands. Urban plans and architectural ensembles of the early 18th century onwards place the city as an outstanding example of innovative classical and neoclassical trends and give it an exceptional urban and architectural unity and coherence. Its urban form represents the success of philosophers who wanted to make towns into melting pots of humanism, universality and culture.
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4. Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:Asaf Lev-AriThe Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for their detail, rich colours and lifelike quality.
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5. Bordeaux
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