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The new site snow and skiing on the Cote d’Azur: a focus for information and tips, a tool of seduction for skiers and lovers of wide open spaces!

The CRT Riviera Cote d’Azur launches the new website (French and English) where users will find the elements necessary for the realization of ski holidays or snow in the Alps Maritimes.

The proposal is made: to ski down on the Cote d’Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes stations LOCATED AT 3h30 of Paris, which opened on nearly 700 km of pistes, a snow guarantee on 80% of the land and sunshine near Riviera that of the coastline.

was created to become an indispensable tool of information and promotion to prepare the winter holiday resorts in the Alpes-Maritimes;

There are…

PRESENTATIONS:.

15 stations of the Alpes-Maritimes

the alpine and Nordic, the snow parks,

the snow activities (dog sledding, ice climbing, ruisseling, skijoring,… )

the snowshoe-hike in the Mercantour.

The calendar of events and news stations. Read the rest of this entry »

ROMA, September 19, 2008 – Unlike his predecessor, Benedict XVI is a pope regarded as apolitical, but this is not true. The policy of Joseph Ratzinger is simply original forms. They are sometimes imprudent, if one refers to the canons of diplomatic realism is also the Vatican. Yet they have been demonstrated, after three years of his pontificate, more productive than many had expected, as also evidenced by the success unexpected recent papal trip in the very secular France..

The rise began in the middle of last century, under Pope Pius XII, to continue with his successor John XXIII and Paul VI. The latter has preached from the podium of the United Nations, on behalf of a church expert in humanity. Deprived of temporal power, the Papacy has acquired a moral authority. But half the world he was implacably hostile. Stalin mocked a Church of private armed divisions. The Soviet superpower was condemned to silence the Church, a rib and another of the Iron Curtain. Not a word about the communist rule in the Second Vatican Council, which has yet talk about everything. At that time, the Vatican Ostpolitik, boasted, was limited to the doctrine as pragmatic as possible, the minimum necessary to give the persecuted church, not a chance to live, but simply not to die. Read the rest of this entry »

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Syria responds to our images of Epinal on the Middle East: a world of desert and oasis cities in the shady streets of minarets pierced, secret gardens and the souks fragrant.

It is that and more, the Blue Guide gives you to see:.

Approaches on the history of a millennium Babylonian Syria, hellinistique, then Roman, Byzantine, Muslim, Ottoman mandated french, and finally national.

The visit to Damascus the Eastern Roman sites nearby (Bosra) and first place in Christendom; Aleppo’s souks and shopping fabulous, Byzantine vestiges of the valley of the Orontes (St. Simeon) of Crusader castles in the coastal hinterland, of Palmyra in the heart of the desert and the sunset.

A host of practical advice, addresses Loved heart and a glossary of art and history.

We like:.

The wealth of cultural information

The scoring of the sites visited by stars: to guide practice visits Read the rest of this entry »