Aigues-Mortes, Gard, France - Le Bassin & Constance Tower - RP postcard
- Condition : Used
- Dispatch : 2 Days
- Brand : None
- ID# : 93649211
- Quantity : 1 item
- Views : 259
- Location : United Kingdom
- Seller : justthebook (+1694)
- Barcode : None
- Start : Sat 23 Feb 2013 20:59:12 (BST)
- Close : Run Until Sold
- Remain : Run Until Sold
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- Postcard
- Picture / Image: Aigues-Mortes, Gard - vue sur le Bassin et la Tour de Constance
- Publisher: Editions SL
- Postally used: no
- Stamp: n/a
- Postmark(s): n/a
- Sent to: n/a
- Notes / condition:
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Postage & Packing:
UK (incl. IOM, CI & BFPO): 99p
Europe: £1.60
Rest of world (inc. USA etc): £2.75
No additional charges for more than one postcard. You can buy as many postcards from me as you like and you will just pay the fee above once. (If buying postcards with other things such as books, please contact or wait for invoice before paying).
Payment Methods:
UK - PayPal, Cheque (from UK bank) or postal order
Outside UK: PayPal ONLY (unless otherwise stated) please. NO non-UK currency checks or money orders (sorry).
NOTE: All postcards are sent in brand new stiffened envelopes which I have bought for the task. These are specially made to protect postcards and you may be able to re-use them. In addition there are other costs to sending so the above charge is not just for the stamp!
I will give a full refund if you are not fully satisfied with the postcard.
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not work) :
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Aigues-Mortes (Occitan: Aigas Mòrtas, i.e. ""dead waters"") is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
The medieval city walls surrounding the city are well preserved.
The foundation of the city is attributed to Gaius Marius, around 102 BC, but the first document mentioning a place called ""Ayga Mortas"" (dead waters) dates from the 10th century AD.
Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) rebuilt the port in the 13th century as France's only Mediterranean port at that time. It was the embarkation point of the Seventh Crusade (1248) and the Eighth Crusade (1270).
The 1,650 meters of city walls were built in two phases: the first during the reign of Philippe III the Bold and the second during the reign of Philippe IV the Fair, who had the enclosure completed between 1289 and 1300. The Constance Tower, completed in 1248, is all that remains of the castle built in Louis IX's reign. It was designed to be impregnable with six-meter-thick walls. A spiral staircase leads to the different levels of the tower.
From 1575 to 1622, Aigues-Mortes was one of the eight safe havens granted to the Protestants. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 caused severe repression of Protestantism, which was marked in Languedoc and the Cévennes in the early 18th century by the ""Camisard War"". Like other towers in the town, from 1686 onwards, the Constance Tower was used as a prison for the Huguenots who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism. In 1703, Abraham Mazel, leader of the Camisards, managed to escape with sixteen companions.
In 1893, a conflict erupted between the French and the Italians who worked in the salt evaporation ponds of Peccais. The Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes resulted in nine (maybe many more: 400 victims in Le migrazioni di ieri e di oggi by Giovanni Gozzini)[1] Italian deaths with hundreds injured in the ethnic violence.
Aigues-Mortes is located in the Petite Camargue.
By road, Aigues-Mortes is about 35 km (21.75 mi) from Nîmes, préfecture (administrative capital) of the Gard département and 30 km (18.65 mi) from Montpellier, préfecture of the Hérault département. As the crow flies, Aigues-Mortes is 32.5 km (20.19 mi) from Nîmes and 26 km (16.16 mi) from Montpellier.
A rail branch line from Nîmes passes through Aigues-Mortes to its terminus on the coast at Grau-du-Roi. This line also transports sea salt.
Aigues-Mortes lies on the Canal du Rhône à Sète and a side branch leads to the Mediterranean Sea at Grau-du-Roi.
type=real photographic (rp)
theme=topographical: rest of the world
sub-theme=europe
county/ country=france
number of items=single
period=1945 - present
postage condition=unposted
Listing Information
| Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
| Listing ID# | 93649211 |
| Start Time | Sat 23 Feb 2013 20:59:12 (BST) |
| Close Time | Run Until Sold |
| Starting Bid | Fixed Price (no bidding) |
| Item Condition | Used |
| Bids | 0 |
| Views | 259 |
| Dispatch Time | 2 Days |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Auto Extend | No |
