| Page Views: 215 Last Visit to Belfort: - | Belfort by black_mimi99 - last update: Jan 13, 2008 |
My short trip to this city had attracted me wanna to see more...
When see the La Citadelle, where famous with the lion monument, the Lion of Belfort, its a huge castle with so many tunnels. |
|  | The City Belfort’s fortified old quarter, on the east bank of the Savoureuse, contains its castle and public buildings. In front of its 18th century hôtel de ville is the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's majestic 1880 statue, the "Lion of Belfort", that commemorates the town’s long siege during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871.
It is made up of that part of the former province of Alsace which was retained by France between 1871-1919, which was also known as the "Territoire de Belfort". The territory was spared German annexation on the ground that people there were French-speaking, unlike those in the rest of Alsace. |
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fabrice Wed Apr 16, 2008 07:30 UTC
the ballon d'alsace is beautiful but here we are still waiting for the spring after 5 months of a very rainy winter | hunterV Fri Feb 1, 2008 18:36 UTC
Belfort looks nice and very tidy. Very special place with rich architecture! | cachaseiro Sun Dec 23, 2007 14:27 UTC
very nice page. i was in belfort once but that is many years ago. | deecat Sat Dec 15, 2007 01:38 UTC
Interesting with beautiful photographs to match. |
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