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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

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  Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria are botanic gardens across two sites–Melbourne and Cranbourne. Melbourne Gardens was founded in 1846 when land was reserved on the south side of the Yarra River for a new botanic garden. It extends across 38 hectares that slope to the river with trees, garden beds, lakes and lawns. Address :  Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia

Great Barrier Reef

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  Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres Location:  Off the east coast of the Queensland mainland,  Australia

Musée d'Orsay

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  Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay  French: is a museum in  Paris ,  France , on the  Left Bank  of the  Seine . It is housed in the former  Gare d'Orsay , a  Beaux-Arts  railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly  French art  dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of  Impressionist  and  post-Impressionist  masterpieces in the world, by painters including  Berthe Morisot ,  Claude Monet ,  Édouard Manet ,  Degas ,  Renoir ,  Cézanne ,  Seurat ,  Sisley ,  Gauguin , and  Van Gogh . Many of these works were held at the  Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume  prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the  largest  art museums in Europe. In 2021 the museum had one million visitors, up 30 percent from attendance in 2020, but far...

Verdon Gorge

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  Verdon Gorge The Verdon Gorge ( French :  Gorges du Verdon ) is a  river   canyon  located in the  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur   region  of Southeastern  France . It is about 25 km (15.5 mi) long and up to 700 metres (0.4 mi) deep. It was formed by the  Verdon River , which is named for its turquoise-green colour, one of the location's distinguishing characteristics. In between the towns of  Castellane  and  Moustiers-Sainte-Marie , the river has cut a  ravine  to a depth of 700 meters through the  limestone  mass. At the end of the canyon, the Verdon flows into the artificial  Lake of Sainte-Croix . The gorge is very popular with tourists, who can drive around its rim, rent  kayaks  to travel on the river, or  hike . The limestone walls, which are several hundreds of metres high, attract many  rock climbers . It is considered an outstanding destination...

Saint-Tropez: land of luxury

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    Saint-Tropez: land of luxury Saint-Tropez  is situated on the Mediterranean coast of  France  in the gulf of the same name. The town was immortalised by the French film director Roger Vadim, who filmed many of the scenes in his film 'Et Dieu Créa la Femme' ('And God Created Woman') in and around the town, filling his lens with the as yet unknown Brigitte Bardot. The town's reputation for free and easy living, however, antedates Vadim's 1956 film by several decades. As early as the 1880's the French novelist Guy de Maupassant arrived here in his yacht to paint the town red, shortly followed by the leading neo-impressionist painter Paul Signac. Forced into Saint-Tropez by bad weather on a sailing trip, Signac loved the town so much be built a house here, which subsequently boasted a succession of famous artists as visitors, including Matisse and Seurat. The town's unspoilt character, relative isolation and the quality of its Mediterranean light attract...

Loire Valley

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  Loire Valley The  Loire Valley   spanning 280 kilometres (170 mi), is a  valley  located in the middle stretch of the  Loire  river in central  France , in both the administrative regions  Pays de la Loire  and  Centre-Val de Loire . The area of the Loire Valley comprises about 800 square kilometres (310 sq mi).  It is referred to as the  Cradle of the French  and the  Garden of France  due to the abundance of  vineyards , fruit orchards (such as  cherries ), and  artichoke , and  asparagus  fields, which line the banks of the river.  Notable for its historic towns, architecture, and wines, the valley has been inhabited since the  Middle Palaeolithic  period.  In 2000,  UNESCO  added the central part of the Loire River valley to its list of  World Heritage Sites .

Eiffel Tower

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  Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.  Located in:   Champ de Mars Address :  Champ de Mars, 5 Av. Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France Height :  300 m, 330 m to tip Architects :  Stephen Sauvestre ,  Maurice Koechlin ,  Émile Nouguier Construction started :  28 January 1887 Contractor :  Eiffel & Cie Opened :  31 March 1889 Architecture firm :  Eiffel & Cie Floors :  3