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With a variety of dialects, a multitude of traditions and contrasting landscapes, 40,000 monuments, including 10,000 chateaux, abbeys and manor-houses, 6,000 museums and over 1,000 festivals France is a country of differences and variety.
In France diversity is king and this is backed up by the extraordinary amount of heritage. From museums stocked with major works to magnificent monuments to small chapels and fountains dotted about the countryside all telling stories of past times.
The scenery varies from the flat open plains of the north, to the mountainous peaks of the Alps and Pyrenees, from the tiny little coves and beaches of Brittany to the vast long stretch of sand which run from Bordeaux to Spain. From the desolate plains of the Causes to the forested woodlands in the north.
Rivers predominate everywhere, giving name to most of the departments of France varying in size from small winding streams to the huge Loire river in Nantes, the mighty Rhone Delta and the Gironde estuary.
There are fields of maize, wheat, barley and sunflowers, apple orchards and vineyards, dairy meadows and sheep pastures. Fields of cabbages and onions predominate in the north whilst the south grows aubergines, tomatoes and peppers and the west has melons and of course there are vineyards in many areas.
The weather is a varied from the harsh snowy cold winters and hot summers of the mountainous regions to the mild and moist winters of the north west, from the mild winters and hot summers of the Mediteranean to the defined seasons of central France. There is a climate to suit everyone and every activity.
posted 30-12-2009 | 16:04:00 | article number: 1
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