England in the Pas-de-Calais
It is a little Windsor, a royal castle in miniature, not far from the dunes. In Condette, 10 km from Boulogne-sur-Mer, the castle of Hardelot is a fantasy neo-gothic, built by the English in the Nineteenth century. Among them, the industrial John Robinson Whitley (1843-1922) update on the development of seaside resorts. Co-founder of le Touquet-Paris-Plage, he gave the castle as early as 1905 a golf course whose first tee was, it is said, from a tower. The gentry loves his garden parties, which stop the first world war.
The castle now hosts the Cultural Centre of the Entente Cordiale dedicated to culture, the arts and the history of relations franco-britanniques. The exhibition is a 3D version of the book a Thousand years of Disagreement Cordial, The history of the anglo-French review by a roast of Stephen Clark, author of the bestseller God Save France . “I tell all the English have done to annoy the French, of the battles in the champagne. It starts with William the Conqueror and end with the Tunnel under the English channel “. The whole is agree to humour the british. Remains to see the Elizabethan drama, inaugurated in 2016, the only one of its kind in France. When in the garden (partly in English, of course!!), its deck chairs invite you to “Break” Sit “!
the gardens of The castle of Hardelot. Pascal Brunet
Where you can enjoy a scone ?
The tea room of the castle of Hardelot. Also on the menu, carrot cake and milk tea.
Castle of Hardelot, the Cultural Center of the Entente Cordiale, 1 rue de la Source 62360 Condette. Tel. : 03 21 21 73 65. Re-opening scheduled for 30 June.
More info on Pas-de-Calais Tourism
Poland TouraineAux walls of the castle of Montresor, hunting trophies, tributes to Napoleon and a copy of the ceiling of the Opera Garnier. ADT Touraine / JC Coutand
” This is not an enclave of poland, defends Isabelle Perry. It is a Atlandide with all that this entails. “A descendant of the comte Polish Branicki, Isabelle Perry is one of the owners of the castle of Montresor located at thirty minutes drive from Chenonceaux. “It is built on a medieval fortress into a Renaissance-style and decorated in the fashion of the Second Empire, she says. Nothing has changed since the Nineteenth century, as if we had closed the door the previous day. The places have kept their inner life “. The slavic soul always resonates in the walls.
Born in 1816 in Poland was carved up between the Russians, Austrians and Prussians, count Branicki takes a stand for the restoration of his country. Fallen in disgrace with the tsar Nicholas I, who launches an Oukase against him, he found refuge in Paris and buys Montresor in 1849. He supports his fellow countrymen, artists, and assembles a collection of paintings telling the history of his country. The walls of the castle, also, hunting trophies, tributes to Napoleon and a copy of the ceiling of the Opera Garnier. This “Little Poland” fits the taste of the time. Montresor bears his name. It is a gem.
Chateau de Montresor, 11, Rue Xavier Branicki, 37460 Montresor. Tel. : 02 47 19 27 50. Re-opening on Thursday, may 21.
The castle of Montresor is located in the Indre-et-Loire, about fifty miles south-east of Tours. ADT Touraine / JC Coutand
Where to sleep ?
Le Moulin de Montresor. breakfast held by a couple belgian-Polish. Breakfast-inspired Polish to the application.
per Night from 89 €.
8 Impasse of the Mechanical, 37460 Montresor. Tel. : 02 47 92 68 20.
More info : Tourist Office of Loches – Loire valley
Japan in AnjouLe Oriental Park of Maulévrier is the largest japanese garden in Europe. Parc Oriental de Maulévrier Photo / press
Forget the Anjou region, its vineyards and its castles. The torii portal (japanese traditional) barely crossed, and the journey to the land of the Rising Sun begins. Under the ifs cut mode niwaki (cloud), it floats an air of ” elsewhere “. Labeled “Remarkable Garden”, the Oriental Park of Maulévrier is the largest japanese garden in Europe. This was madness to the architect Alexandre Marcel (1860-1928), known for the hall of The Pagoda in Paris (converted into a cinema during the renovation). Between 1899 and 1913, he transformed the romantic garden of the castle of Colbert, then the property of her husband’s family, in a dream of the east. “It keeps an initial part of the plant, the layout of the large alleys and added constructions, lanterns, the red bridge and the pier. He designs rooms of greenery and movements of water, ” explains Hervé Raimbault, the director of the place.
since 1945, the park becomes a farm before falling into neglect. Bought by the municipality, an association ensures the restoration as early as 1980. “We created opportunities and played with transparency,” says director of the Oriental Park. In 1987, japanese scientists announce the garden as being inspired of the Edo period (XVII-Xix century). “The course is East-West, or the sunrise of the day, synonym of life and the birth, at the going down of the sun associated with death. The garden is said of transformation, symbolizing the stages of life through the different blooms in the course of water “. This “transformation” is also on the (right) mood of the visitors.
The park is unique in its kind by its extraordinary architectural setting, botany, and symbolism. Parc Oriental de Maulévrier Photo / press
Where to get a japanese tea set ?
The tea room of the park with the confectionery japanese whose dorayaki with red beans.
Oriental Park of Maulévrier, route de Mauléon, 49360 Maulévrier. Tel. : 02 41 55 50 14. Open since may 20.
More info : Anjou Tourism
Russia, on The Coast of AzurClassée a Historic Monument, the cathedral is the largest building of this type outside of Russia. Nice city / Photo news
The Russians and the French Riviera… This long love story began under Catherine II and grew up in the 1850s. The heart has its reasons. The Crimean war was lost, the Russians seek an anchorage in the Mediterranean for their fleet. The House of Savoy in their offer in the bay of Villefranche. Nice then became a resort destination for the imperial family, which is flanked by the crowned heads of England. It is followed by the Russian elite. The baron von Derwies, businessman, musician and philanthropist, built the château Valrose , and brought an isba in and around Kiev. It is intoxicating live music and a party – much less, of course, since the Faculty of Science came to nest there (possible visit during the national Heritage Days). The advisor of the tsar Alexander II, Lev Viktorovitch Kotchoubeï, erects his palace became the Museum of Fine Arts. It welcomes, among others, the self-portraits of Marie Bashkirtseff, a shooting star, a painter and feminist who died at 25 years of age. In his Journal (1873-1877), she describes her life in Nice.
That Russian buildings along the streets ! Among them, the lycée du Parc Impérial , the cemetery of Caucade , the church of the orthodox rue de Longchamp … The most visited remains the cathedral of St. Nicholas in 1912. Evoking that of St. Basil the Blessed in Moscow, it looks like a candy colored under the bulbous blue and green. “It is a testimony of the affluence and influence of this community in the city is” moving forward Audrey Donadey-Pascal of the Metropolis Nice Côte d’azur. The revolution of 1917, many white Russians fled to Nice to escape the bolsheviks. Nice and Russia, it is a story of love, blood and tears “. And ink. In addition to Gogol and Tolstoy, Chekhov stayed there and wrote The Three Sisters in the Russian Pension (which today is the Hotel Oasis, editor’s NOTE).
The story continues. Since 2010, the train has resumed service, connecting Moscow to Nice in fifty hours. As at the time of the czars.
Museum of Fine Arts. Jules Cheret / OTMNCA
Where to eat a borsch ?
The trans-siberian railway. Table, simple and colorful, which also offers a banya (kind of sauna Russian).
1 Rue Bottero, 06000 Nice. Tel. : 09 81 45 15 00.
Office of Tourism, the Metropolitan Nice Côte d’azur
Vietnam in the AllierLa pagoda Phap Vuong You to Noyant d’allier. Géral LALLEMANT
Noyant d’allier is a small village of 700 inhabitants some twenty kilometres from Moulins. “It is often called as a corner of Vietnam in the heart of the “bocage” points out Caroline Guyenne, who conducts the grocery store-bar-restaurant in The Little Asia. He runs an amazing page of history. After the defeat of Dien bien Phu in 1954, a reception centre for returnees from Indo-china is located in the village, which was deserted a few years earlier by the Polish following the closure of the coal mine. The Franco-Indochinese settled in the homes of miners cottages. You can imagine the clash of cultures, dreams, climate… Some leave, others remain.
” In 1983, we set up the pagoda Phap Vuong Tu which becomes a place of meetings. The ” tatas “, these older ladies love to accommodate and share a cup of tea with the people passing by. We are allowed to carry in Asia, ” says Caroline Guyenne. Everything is there and invites to meditation according to buddhist rituals : lions are the guardians of the temple , a buddha lying down , head to east and feet to west, symbolizing the attainment of Nirvana ; another buddha sitting serenely… bare Feet, closed eyes, and the tinkling of chimes in the distance, we suddenly in a dream of Asia, more than 10 000 miles away…
Yes, we are in the Ally! Luc OLIVIER / CDT Allier
Where to eat a Bo bun and spring rolls ?
Asia minor . Journey to the table of soups, dumplings, spring rolls, fondue vietnamese…Reservations recommended (a single service).
38, rue de la mine, 03210 Noyant d’allier. Tel. : 04 70 47 21 31.
More info : Noyant d Allier and Allier Bourbonnais Tourism
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