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Number of Regions in France reduces from 22 to 13
Says This French Life : “You most probably didn’t feel it last night, but the number of regions in France dropped from 22 to a slimline 13 after an evening of debate in the National Assembly.”
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Number of regions in France drops from 22 to 13 (This French Life)
The Rhône-Alpes
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Highly varied landscapes and an impressive tourism offer make Rhône-Alpes a region of good living, which its inhabitants and an ever-growing number of visitors appropriate with great ease. The most extensive ski slopes are here and, if all of the regions ski-lifts were joined end to end, they would cover the distance from Lyon to Cairo. The fact that the Winter Olympics have been held three times in the region (1st Winter Olympics at Chamonix in 1924, 10th Winter Olympics at Grenoble in 1968 and 16th Winter Olympics at Albertville, Savoie, in 1992) has solidly underlined this sporting identity.
Rhône-Alpes has a wealth of museums, including Lyon’s Saint-Pierre Museum, the leading French museum after the Louvre, the National centre of Contemporary Art of Grenoble, or Saint-Etienne’s Museum of Modern Art. The National Opera of Lyon enables music lovers to cultivate their passion and a wider public to discover the greatest names of the classical and contemporary repertoires.
One of the best equipped and most abounding regions of France in terms of theatres, Rhône-Alpes has five National Theatres and five national drama centres, including the TNP of Villeurbanne, la Comédie of Saint-Étienne, the National drama centre of Savoie…
A Higher National Conservatory of music and dance.
Neighbourhoods of Lyon listed as UNESCO world heritage sites.
Internationally renowned events and festivals (Fête des Lumières, Jazz à Vienne, Biennials of contemporary art and dance).
As Lyon was the birthplace of the Lumière brothers, inventors of cinema, the 7th Art, Rhône-Alpes is among the regions with the highest numbers of cinema-goers. It is also the setting of rich cinematographic output, with Rhône-Alpes cinéma .
This French Life !
This French Life is a website portal which provides many interesting nuggets of information and is of service to people who are keen to move to France, or those already living there.
There are articles about setting-up a wide variety of necessary services, from banking to the internet, as well as some of the more enjoyable things about life.
It also features interviews with people from the area, those that have lived here all their lives and those that have moved to start a fresh in France.
The site is organised by categories and from the frontpage of the site you will be able to read the latest articles and news.
Contact Craig McGinty via email: craig@thisfrenchlife.com