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Cannes: the glamour prize
Cannes will be in the spotlight from May 13th to 24th, 2025, thanks to the Festival! Once a simple fishing village and now a legend on the French Riviera, Cannes has built its reputation around the 7th art. Such is its renown that it has become the ...
+ See featureCaen: the millennium of the city of 100 steeples
The capital of Lower Normandy celebrates its millennium in 2025! Indissociable from the historic figure of William the Conqueror, the medieval past of this town in Calvados is still very much alive. The castle, with its imposing ramparts, was one of ...
+ See featureMont Blanc: at the heart of the international year of glacier preservation
The United Nations General Assembly decided to declare 2025 the International Year of Glacier Preservation. In 1786, the ascent of the roof of Europe was both a challenge and a scientific exploration. Today, more than ever, this glacial area that is ...
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Stop on Images : a selection of the latest productions by Hemis photographers.
+ See featureCôtes d'Armor: the island of Saint Gildas celebrates the pardon of the horses
The pardon of the horses has been held on the island of Saint-Gildas off the coast of Penvénan (Côtes-d'Armor) every June since the 18th century. Its origins date back to a pandemic that decimated horses on the mainland but spared those on the ...
+ See featureThe Transhimalayenne on a Royal Enfield motorbike
Our photographer Bertrand GARDEL invites you on a unique adventure on a Royal Enfield Himalayan 400cc motorbike through the majestic peaks of the Trans-Himalayan, one of the highest roads in the world! This grandiose journey of ten stages begins in ...
+ See featureDubourdieu: excellence since 1800 in Arcachon
The Dubourdieu shipyard, based in Gujan Mestras and labelled a living heritage company, has been the pride of the Arcachon basin since it was founded in 1800 by Louis Dubourdieu. This is the oldest French shipyard still in operation. Built entirely ...
+ See featureEdelweiss: Queen of the Alps
The emblem of the Alpine peaks, and of Switzerland in particular, edelweiss, literally ‘white nobility’, has acclimatised over thousands of years to the extreme conditions that prevail at altitudes between 1700 and 3400 metres. Native to the ...
+ See featureAtelier d'Offard: exceptional wallpaper!
Trained at the Beaux-Arts, François-Xavier Richard founded the Atelier d'Offard in 1999. Located in Touraine, he is now perpetuating the wallpaper skills of the great 18th and 19th century manufacturers. This living heritage company reproduces ...
+ See featureManila: Father Dauchez, 25 years working alongside street children
For the past 25 years, Father Matthieu Dauchez and his foundation Anak-Tnk (‘A Bridge for Children’) have been helping lost Filipino children in the capital. Their aim is to restore dignity and hope to as many of these children as possible, who ...
+ See featureTransylvania: addicted to Dracula!
Count Dracula is a fictional character born of the unbridled imagination of the British writer Bram Stocker at the end of the 19th century. The novel was first published in 1897. Dracula is nonetheless based on a very real figure, Vlad Tepes, known ...
+ See featureThe world's most astonishing lighthouses
There are a wide variety of lighthouses around the world. These maritime signalling devices are distinguished by their originality of shape, colour, material... Historic or contemporary, huge or tiny, they often stand watch over breathtaking ...
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