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Just a step from the city heart, one can promenade in Antigone's district in the middle of a contemporary town planning in the signed classic curves Ricardo Bofill, who realized here a magnificent Olympic Swimming pool, of glass and metal.
A history millennium : Being based in 985, Montpellier is, since its previous history, a city of cultural and economic admixture where one cultivates harmoniously arts and sciences, technology and relaxed rhythm of life.
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Montpellier is situated in the tradition of the medieval, European big cities, opened on the world, negotiating with the Mediterranean Sea and the cities of the North, collecting and propagating the new ideas.
Big city of university tradition, the medicine is there a vocation for the XI-th century with the Faculty of Medicine the most ancient(former) of the western world. The fame of its Universities and its Research centers makes(does) of Montpellier one of the first university towns of France.
Today, Montpellier becomes attached with passion to the European construction and develops in a permanent concern of modernity, aesthetics and quality of life. The projects always bloom(prosper) : here the first streetcar of the South passes which marries the art and the technology, there appears the big glass library
, and then towards the sea, in the heart of Port Marianne
The city welcomes the modern music, the operatic(lyric) and symphonic art, with the National Orchestra and the Operas. The theater, the cinema, the plastic arts, the dance live through the festivals of international fame.
Then, please, leave in the discovery of Montpelier under the behaviour(canal) of its guides: regular Conducted tour every Wednesday and Saturdays at 15 o'clock and in summer, every day at 10 o'clock and 17 hours. In the week, visits with subjects : booking compulsory for the 04.67.60.60.60
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