Capital:
Paris
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CHAMONIX
According to the Straits of La Manche and Pas-de-Calais the border with Britain. The country is dwarf principality of Monaco. Major rivers country-Seine, Loire, Garonne, the Rhine and Rhone. The highest point of France and throughout Western Europe, the city of Mont Blanc (4807 m).
In 60 years the twentieth century, France has enormous public and private investment in the construction of national ski resorts. As a result, the country has received tens of modern ski complexes and ran its Alpine neighbours in the development of the mountainous areas. There are unthinkable in other razmerenno developing and living quietly Alpine countries modernist mountain points. Another powerful impetus to the development of infrastructure ski resorts are investing training period in the Alberville Winter Olympics (1996). Today, more than 80 alpine resorts France ready to take a more than 1 million tourists. The main mass of vacationers in the winter in the mountains (up to 80%) is very French, which is largely sound system contributes to the school holidays, so society will increase family and children's winter vacation. Today France-absolute world leader to receive foreign tourists and Chamonix valley route, alpine areas complexes Three Valley (Courchevel, Meribel, Val Torans) Espass Killy (Val d'Isère, Tin), or La Plane skiers were well known throughout the world.
Routes are equipped with lifts off, well established industry ski schools, with a large number of experienced instructors who speak five languages. No country in the world is not such a length of ski runs, in 3-valley 600 km or 680 km Chamonix. French mountain hotels are exquisite cuisine and excellent service in restaurants.
French, German distributed (Alsace), Breton (Western Brittany), baksky (Pyrenees)
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The climate in most of France is under constant exposure to air Atlantic, and more generally described as a Marine, moderately warm and humid. The average July temperatures in the west 18. With the removal of East Coast ocean
1 Euro = 100 Evrotsentov. Currency exchange can be made at banks, in a hotel (the course is not very profitable), at the airport. Convenient to use credit cards
Regular deadline documents to the embassy to 2 weeks.
Required documents:
At the French territory are free to import more than 200 cigarettes (or 50 cigars or 250 grams of tobacco), one litre of spirits firmer on the 22 (or 2 litres of wine), 50 mL of spirits (or 250 ml toilet water), 500 g. coffee, 100 grams of tea.
Do not carry drugs, pornographic images of minors, old coins and works of art, arms and some plants.
Banks usually open Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 16.30. Some banks are working on Saturday morning, and closed on Monday, but all, without exception, are closed on Sundays and public holidays. Most shops are open Monday to Saturday from 8.00, or 9.00 to 18.30 or 19.30, some supermarkets are working night - to nine-ten o'clock in the evening. Small shops are closed on Monday morning, and sometimes the whole day. Shops serving tourists tend to work on Sunday.
Great restaurants, bars and cafes are open daily. Restaurants space closed on Sunday. Some nightclubs are open until morning, others for up to two nights.
Museums working in 9.00 or 10.00 and closed at 17.00 or 18.00. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Large museum once a week, usually on Thursday, open until 21.00 or 22.00.
Telephone:
Like most European countries, France is convenient to use phone cards, which are sold at newspaper kiosks or tobacco, at train stations. If you need to call from France to Russia, dial 007, then the area code, then the phone number. If you are in rural areas where there are no public phones, looking for homes with telephone publique "plate", where you can call and paid the owner of the house.
Useful numbers:
background-12, ambulance-15, police-17.
Russia embassy in France in Paris at: 79, Rue de Grenelle, tel. : 01/45.48.99.28.
Aeroflot's Representation in Paris: 33, Avenue des Champs Elysees, tel. : 01/42.25.43.81
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