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Fayence
Fayence (; oc, Faiença) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 5,735. Fayence is one of a series of "perched villages" overlooking the plain between the southern Alps and the Esterel massif, which borders the Mediterranean Sea between Cannes and Saint-Raphaël. The village is located on the road to Mons, which later on joins the Route Napoléon linking Nice to Grenoble through the Alps. Some high-standing resorts have settled nearby the village in the recent years: the Domaine de Terre Blanche at Tourrettes and Domaine de Fayence attract a foreign clientele. The village contains a primary school (École de la Ferrage) and a junior high school (Collège Marie Mauron). The Aérodrome de Fayence-Tourettes is one of the most active in Europe for gliding; it hosts the Provence Côte d'Azur Aeronautical Association. History Before and during WWII, Fayence-Tourettes Airfield was an air fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pays De Fayence
The Pays de Fayence is a 'communauté de communes' made up of 9 communes in the departement Var, southeastern France. Its seat is in the town Fayence.CC du Pays de Fayence (N° SIREN : 200004802) BANATIC, accessed 7 April 2022. Its area is 401.9 km2, and its population was 28,266 in 2019.Comparateur de territoire INSEE. Retrieved 25 November 2022. Composition ...
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Fayence-Tourrettes Airfield
Fayence-Tourrettes Airfield (french: Aérodrome Fayence - Tourrettes) is a small airfield located south of Fayence and Tourrettes, both communes of the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. History On 13 June 1940, 12 Italian fighters FIAT CR.42, from 151° ''Gruppo'' of 53° ''Stormo'', of Regia Aeronautica, attacked the airfield, destroying several aircraft on the ground.Skulski 2007, p. 20. Nowadays, it is home to a large gliding Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word ''soaring'' is al ... club, the ''Association Aéronautique Provence Côte d'Azur'' (AAPCA) and to one microlight school. Runway 10L has two small tarmac landing strips for the exclusive use of gliders. References Bibliography * De Marchi, Italo. ''Fiat CR.42 Falco'' (in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourrettes, Var
Tourrettes (; oc, Torretas) is a Communes of France, commune in the Var (département), Var Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region in southeastern France. Tourrettes is one of a series of "perched villages" overlooking the plain between the southern Alps and the Esterel massif, which borders the sea between Cannes and Saint-Raphaël, Var, Saint-Raphaël. Tourrettes is popular with tourists. The village is located on the road to Mons, which later on joins the Route Napoléon (linking Nice to Grenoble through the Alps). In the recent years a high-standing golf resort has settled in Tourrettes, the Domaine de Terre Blanche. The Fayence-Tourrettes Airfield, aerodrome of Fayence-Tourrettes was one of the most active in Europe. Geography Climate Tourrettes has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification ''Csa''). The average annual temperature in Tourrettes is . The average annual rainfall is with Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Var Department
The following is a list of the 153 communes of the Var department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. * Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence (partly) * * |
Var (department)
Var (, ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It takes its name from the river Var, which flowed along its eastern boundary, until the boundary was moved in 1860 and the department is no longer associated with the river. The Var department is bordered on the east by the department of Alpes-Maritimes, to the west by Bouches-du-Rhône, to the north of the river Verdon by the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea. It had a population of 1,076,711 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 83 Var INSEE is the largest city and administrative capital ( |
Louis Boisgibault
Louis Boisgibault (born June 30, 1962) is a French higher education director, corporate director, professor, researcher and author known for his publications on energy transition in the EMEA Region. He works as director of development and cooperations, full-time faculty member, at North American Private University in Sfax, Tunisia. Early life and education Boisgibault was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He graduated in 1984 with a master's degree in economics and management from Université Paris-Dauphine. He received a MBA from HEC Paris in 1990 with an exchange program at the Wharton School. In September 2016, he defended successfully a PhD thesis at Sorbonne Université in geography. Career After eight years at BNP-Paribas in Paris and Amsterdam, Boisgibault worked for Electricité de France and Engie Group in Paris and London, as executive director and Board member for energy projects. In 2006, he co-founded and led VALMERE, a consulting firm specialized in energy transit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mons, Var
Mons (; oc, Monts or ) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Geography Situated at an altitude of 814 metres the commune of Mons encompasses a vast territory of in the Var, Provence, ranging from 214 metres (at the confluent of the Siagne and the Siagnole rivers) to 1715 metres at the summit of Mont-Lachens. This explains the variety of different scenery found on the territory of the commune, as well as the diversity of its vegetation, but also accounts for the fact that it is sparsely cultivated. There are exceptional views from the village (from the Place Saint Sebastien), ranging from Menton to the East all the way to Toulon in the West. Transportation With today's network of roads, Mons is a mere from Grasse, from Draguignan, from Saint-Raphaël, from Cannes and from Nice. Personalities related to the municipality Famous members of the Villeneuve family, including: * a saint : Saint Roseline. Other person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domaine De Terre Blanche
The Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Golf Resort is located at Tourrettes, Var, just southeast of Fayence in the Provence region of France. The estate became the property of the Bouge family in the 18th century. Sean Connery owned the property for 20 years before he sold the château and its surrounding 266 hectares to Dietmar Hopp in 1999. Hopp transformed the property into an exclusive golf resort with luxury properties, two championship golf courses, the Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Golf Resort, and a world class spa. It was ranked as 5th in the CNN Money dream vacation home guide. The domaine is 30–45 minutes by car from Cannes, Nice, and St Tropez, and one hour from Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig .... Notes External links Terre Blanche - Official Website Terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiat CR
Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (, , ; originally FIAT, it, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino, lit=Italian Automobiles Factory of Turin) is an Italian automobile manufacturer, formerly part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and since 2021 a subsidiary of Stellantis through its Italian division Stellantis Italy. Fiat Automobiles was formed in January 2007 when Fiat S.p.A. reorganized its automobile business, and traces its history back to 1899 when the first Fiat automobile, the Fiat 4 HP, was produced. Fiat Automobiles is the largest automobile manufacturer in Italy. During its more than century-long history, it remained the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe and the third in the world after General Motors and Ford for over 20 years, until the car industry crisis in the late 1980s. In 2013, Fiat S.p.A. was the second largest European automaker by volumes produced and the seventh in the world, while FCA was the world's eighth-largest automaker. In 1970, Fiat Automobiles empl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiley - ISTE
Wiley may refer to: Locations * Wiley, Colorado, a U.S. town *Wiley, Pleasants County, West Virginia, U.S. * Wiley-Kaserne, a district of the city of Neu-Ulm, Germany People * Wiley (musician), British grime MC, rapper, and producer * Wiley Miller, pen name of American newspaper cartoonist David Wiley Miller As a given name * Wiley Brooks (1936–2016), founder of the Breatharian Institute of America * Wiley Young Daniel, American judge * Wiley Nickel, American politician * Wiley Post (1898–1935), American aviator, the first person to fly solo around the world * Wiley Rutledge (1894–1949), American jurist, Supreme Court justice * Wiley Scribner (1840–1889), American politician * Wiley Wiggins, American game designer and actor As a surname * Alan Wiley, British football referee * Alexander Wiley, U.S. Senator * Austin Wiley, American basketball player * Autrey Nell Wiley, American literary critic * Cliff Wiley, American track and field athlete * Charles Wiley, American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint-André, jardin de ville, banks of the Isère , arrondissement = Grenoble , canton = Grenoble-1, 2, 3 and 4 , INSEE = 38185 , postal code = 38000, 38100 , mayor = Éric Piolle , term = 2020–2026 , party = EELV , image flag = Flag of Grenoble.svg , image coat of arms = Coat of Arms of Grenoble.svg , intercommunality = Grenoble-Alpes Métropole , coordinates = , elevation min m = 212 , elevation m = 398 , elevation max m = 500 , area km2 = 18.13 , population = , population date = , population footnotes = , urban pop = 451096 , urban area km2 = 358.1 , u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the , the southeastern coast of France on the , at the foot of the |
