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NordArt is an international contemporary art exhibition and a non-profit cultural initiative of the ACO Group and the cities of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg. It has taken place annually in the summer since 1999 at Carlshütte, a former iron foundry. The site features 22,000 m² of interior space and 60,000 m² for outdoor installations.
Côtes-du-Nord was one of the original 83 departments created on 4 March 1790 following the French Revolution. It was made up from the near entirety of the ancient Pays de Saint-Brieuc , most of historical Trégor , the eastern half of Cornouaille , and the north-western part of the former diocese of Saint-Malo .
Geography. Nord is part of the current Hauts-de-France region and is surrounded by the French departments of Pas-de-Calais, Somme, and Aisne, as well as by Belgium and the North Sea. Its area is 5,742.8 km 2 (2,217.3 sq mi). [5] It is the longest department in metropolitan France, measuring 184 km from Fort-Philippe in the north-west to Anor in ...
The first president of the general council was Louis Joseph de Warenghien de Flory, magistrate and politician in Douai. When it was created, the Nord had 8 arrondissements : [3] Avesnes (now part of Avesnes-sur-Helpe ), Bergues (now part of Dunkirk ), Cambrai , Douai , Hazebrouck (now part of Dunkirk ), Lille , Le Quesnoy (now part of Avesnes ...
The Chemins de fer du Nord[1][2][3][4] (French: Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord or CF du Nord), (English: Northern Railway Company) often referred to simply as the Nord company, was a rail transport company founded in September 1845 in Paris. It was owned by, among others, de Rothschild Frères of France, N M Rothschild & Sons of London ...
The Col du Chat is a mountain pass located in France, in the commune of La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat, in the French department of Savoie in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It crosses the Mont du Chat in the Jura Mountains, overlooking Lac du Bourget opposite the town of Aix-les-Bains. Although it has never been crossed by a main transalpine ...
Until the construction of the Canal du Nord, the Canal de Saint-Quentin was the only waterway linking the Seine basin to the north of France. [2] The rise of the coal industry in Pas-de-Calais eventually saturated traffic on the Canal de Saint-Quentin and necessitated a new transportation link to the Île-de-France region to ensure that the northern French coal mining companies could ...
Cantons of the Nord department. The following is a list of the 41 cantons of the Nord department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Aniche. Annœullin.