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    The city of Bordeaux cuts a fine figure, towering above the west bank of the River Garonne, a blend of neoclassical grandeur and modern innovation. The Romans set up a lively trading centre here, and the city […]
    Bordeaux
    3 months, 3 weeks ago
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    Basque-speaking, wet and green in the west; craggy, snowy, Gascon-influenced in the middle; dry, Mediterranean and Catalan-speaking in the east – the Pyrenees are physically beautiful, culturally varied and less […]
    The Pyrenees
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    While the old provinces of Haut Quercy and Quercy – the land between the Dordogne and the Lot rivers and between the Lot and the Garonne, Aveyron and Tarn – largely correspond to the modern-day Lot département, it […]
    The Lot
    3 months, 3 weeks ago