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What to do in Spain? what to see? what to visit?
“La Matinale” invites you on a journey. This week, we dive back into our reports to discover the geological wonders of the Congost of Rebei or the wild beauty of…
Where to go in 2024? The list of ten destinations in the “World” without planes!
Like every year, “Le Monde” reveals its list of destinations. For 2024, there are ten, in France or in Europe. And without a plane! Trips to discover Cornwall by train…
The sleeping beauties of the Puys chain
source https://assets-decoders.lemonde.fr/doc_happens/231130-10-desti-2024/structure.txt Some are corpulent and can be seen from afar; others, just outlined, can barely be guessed. Whatever their size, the rounded volcanoes are covered with a green and…
From castles to hillsides, the meanders of the Moselle
source https://assets-decoders.lemonde.fr/doc_happens/231130-10-desti-2024/structure.txt Some look proud with their keep, their guard towers and their curtain walls topped with machicolations. The others are nothing more than ruins which barely reveal the outline…
The Montagne Noire, at the origins of the Canal du Midi
source https://assets-decoders.lemonde.fr/doc_happens/231130-10-desti-2024/structure.txt At the extreme south of the Massif Central, dominating the Thoré valley, stands the Montagne Noire. The name of this granite relief, straddling the Aude and the Tarn,…
The Aletsch glacier, such a sensitive colossus
source https://assets-decoders.lemonde.fr/doc_happens/231130-10-desti-2024/structure.txt Contemplating it from the peaks that surround it provides a certain emotion. But treading on ice provokes an intoxication of a completely different order. To get in touch…
The Etel ria, the captivating Morbihan
source https://assets-decoders.lemonde.fr/doc_happens/231130-10-desti-2024/structure.txt It is a quiet, warm silence, barely disturbed by a slight breeze and the chirping of sparrows. At the end of the Pointe du Verdon, one of the…
48 hours in Bergamo
source https://assets-decoders.lemonde.fr/doc_happens/231130-10-desti-2024/structure.txt Three years after the Covid-19 pandemic which ravaged the province of Bergamo in 2020 (around 6,000 deaths in March 2020), the city of 116,000 inhabitants chosen as European…
How young people are reinvesting in train travel
Benjamin Martinie, YouTuber and creator of the Hourrail site, new media dedicated to trains, in 2020. TOLT PRODUCTIONS When she visits her brother living in Denmark, Chiara Pellas systematically takes…
On board the Paris-Berlin, symbol of the revival of the night train
On the first night train to Berlin from Gare de l’Est, December 12, 2023. MARIE MAGNIN / DIVERGENCE He is back. Nine years after its shutdown, the Berlin-Paris night train…
In Mannheim, Germany, the major night train maneuvers
At a depot in Mannheim, southwest Germany, February 23, 2022. DANIEL ROLAND / AFP “Mannheim is the first marshalling yard in Europe”, recalls Alain Krakovitch, director of TGV and Intercités…
From Luchon to the port of Venasque, a path of stories
source https://assets-decoders.lemonde.fr/doc_happens/231130-10-desti-2024/structure.txt From the avenues of Etigny you can only see them: the Pic de Sauvegarde (2,738 m) and the Pic de la Mine (2,704 m). They dominate with their…