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Mont Saint-Michel | A must-see in North France

Le Mont-Saint-Michel is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France. The island is located about one kilometer (0.6 miles) off the country’s northwestern coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches and is 7 hectares (17 acres) in area. The mainland part of the commune is 393 hectares (971 acres) in […]

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The Eiffel Tower from the Mur pour la Paix at Night

Paris is definitely the city that I’ve visited most in Europe, and yet looking over and over to its monuments never tires me, as it’s always nice and special to look at it from different locations. This time I was going to photograph the École Militaire at night, and while I was making my way through the […]

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The Louvre Museum and its stunning Glass Pyramid

Oh the Louvre Museum. There is one place in Paris, France that I photographed many times already and I still have a lot of fun photographing over and over again: the Louvre Museum and its stunning glass pyramid. As one of the world’s largest museums and a historic monument, its pyramid was designed by the […]

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Dune du Pilat | The Highest Dune in Europe

Last year while visiting Bordeaux, France I drove with my cousin to the stunning Great Dune of Pila (or Pilat), Dune du Pilat in french, located at 60Km from Bordeaux, in the South of the Arcachon Bay. The dune is around 500m wide from east to west and 2.7 km in length from north to […]

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Visiting the interior of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

One of the most notable monuments in Paris (and in all of Europe for that matter) is the Notre Dame Cathedral. This Catholic treasure is over 800 years old. It is located on a small island called the Ile de la Cite in the middle of river Seine. The building of the cathedral was completed […]

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