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Walking Tours: Christmas 2020 – Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris (Video)
Filmed on December 20th, 2020.
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, 1.9 kilometres long and 70 metres wide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located.
Video Profiles: French Nobel Prize Author Albert Camus (1913 -1960)
This week, we’re putting the focus on Nobel Prize-winning French author Albert Camus. As 2020 saw France mark 60 years since his death in a car crash, Camus’s seminal work “The Plague” was unexpectedly thrust back into the spotlight by the Covid-19 pandemic.
From the UK to Japan, the 1947 novel established itself as a global sensation, topping sales charts and pushing publishers into a rushed reprint. But Camus’s prolific and multi-faceted career extends far beyond this viral hit. We tell you more about the author’s life, starting with his humble beginnings in French-ruled Algeria.
Home Tour: Chamonix – Mont Blanc, France
Le Lustre, a beautiful modern-contemporary duplex penthouse, located in the historic heart of Chamonix. Covering more than 400m2 and with a rooftop south-facing terrace of more than 100m2, the duplex offers breath-taking 360 degree views of the Mont Blanc mountain landscape. Over a 2-year period, with the involvement of leading architect firms from Hong Kong and Chamonix in conjunction with the best local artisans, Le Lustre moved from concept to reality and this iconic building came back to life in the center of town.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (usually shortened to Chamonix) is a resort area near the junction of France, Switzerland and Italy. At the base of Mont Blanc, the highest summit in the Alps, it’s renowned for its skiing. Year-round, cable cars take visitors up to several nearby peaks with panoramic views, including Aiguille du Midi above town, and Pointe Helbronner, across vast glacier fields on the Italian border.
Travel: ‘Normandy’ In Northern France (Video)
Normandy is a region of northern France. Its varied coastline includes white-chalk cliffs and WWII beachheads, including Omaha Beach, site of the famous D-Day landing. Just off the coast, the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel is topped by a soaring Gothic abbey. The city of Rouen, dominated by Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen, is where military leader and Catholic saint Joan of Arc was executed in 1431.
Aerial Travel: ‘Monaco’ On The Côte d’Azur (Video)
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera in Western Europe. It is bordered by France to the north, east, west and by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Winter Travel: Cross-Country Skiing Through France’s Jura Mountains
The white blanket of France’s eastern Jura Mountains stretches out for 340 kilometres along the Swiss border. Trekking across this wilderness is an unforgettable journey. We follow a small group of cross-country skiers for a three-day hike through pine trees, frozen lakes, gentle slopes and sunny peaks. At night we stop off at a chalet to sample rösti, a local Jura specialty. At the Franco-Swiss border, we discover a passage where Resistance fighters and Jews risked their lives to flee occupied France between 1941 and 1945.
Walking Tour: Christmas Lights Up In Galeries Lafayette, Paris (Video)
Christmas lights in Paris 2020. Every year, Paris is covered in lights with beautiful Christmas lightings. In this video, A walking tour around Galeries Lafayette , Christmas lightings around this area despite coronavirus and lockdown. The Lafayette galleries are and always will be an emblem of Parisian shopping. With its large glass dome, beautiful decorations and toys, fashion accessories, luxury items of all kinds or a lot of clothing, this store has become a monument in its own right and continues to amaze and enchant its visitors.
Video Profiles: French Painter Sam Szafran – ‘Dizzying Perspectives’
Contemporary artist Sam Szafran created truly dizzying perspectives in all of his art. In this episode of Expert Voices, discover how his extensive oeuvre often featured the same themes focusing on staircases, his studios and plants. ‘Staircase with a Blue Window’ and ‘Plants with Skylights’ perfectly depict his skill at capturing vertiginous aspects and ‘Atelier de la rue de Crussol’ shows a multitude of hidden details in this captivating work.
Sam Szafran (19 November 1934 – 14 September 2019) was a French artist. He has been buried in the cimetière parisien de Bagneux.
Walking Tours: Christmas Season In Paris, France
Filmed on November 28th, 2020 in Paris, France.
【Locations】 00:00 Preview 00:24 Starting Point 00:32 1st arrondissement of Paris / 1er arrondissement de Paris 01:55 Avenue de l’Opéra 11:11 Place de l’Opéra 12:13 Palais Garnier / Opéra Garnier 14:17 Rue de la Paix 17:51 Colonne Vendôme 18:12 Place Vendôme 21:20 Rue de Castiglione 23:53 Rue de Rivoli 28:19 Place des Pyramides 32:49 Place du Carrousel 33:40 Louvre Pyramid / Pyramide du Louvre
