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ARTICLES RELATED TO Angers - Sights | | | |  Angers - Sights: Encyclopedia II - Angers - SightsThe site of a massive and ancient château, the city is also noted for the impressive twin spires of the twelfth century Cathedral of Saint-Maurice. Other noteworthy churches around Angers include St. Serge, an abbey-church of the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, and the twelfth century La Trinité.
The famous abbey of St. Aubin has a courtyard with elaborately sculptured arcades of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. ...
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| | | | Angers - Sights: Encyclopedia II - Angers - Colleges and universities A centre of learning, Angers boasts two renowned universities and several specialized institutions, alltogether responsible for more than 40,000 students. The city is host of the L'Université Catholique de l'Ouest (UCO), one of five Catholic universities in France.
UCO houses le Centre International Des Études Françaises,(CIDEF) a center of French language instruction tailored to forigen students. Students from all over the world, including Americans primarily from the Universities of Auburn, Notre Dame, Oregon, Clemson, and Kansas ...
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| | | | Angers - Sights: Encyclopedia II - Angers - Culture Angers calls itself the "most flowered city in Europe," and its cut and its displays of live and cut flowers are stunning indeed. It is also well-known for being the seat of important cultural events, like the film festival Premiers Plans, Tour de Scènes (free concerts in the streets) and Les Accroche-Coeurs (free street festival).
It has an orchestre ONPL shared with Nantes, a local the ...
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| | | | Angers - Sights: Encyclopedia II - Angers - Economy The early prosperity of the town is largely due to the nearby quarries of slate, whose abundant use for the roofs of Angers led to the city's nickname, the "Black City" (or la ville noire in French). Other industries (noted in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica) included the distillation of liqueurs from fruit the orange liqueur Cointreau is only distilled in the town of Angers and the surrounding areas; cable, rope, and thread-making; the manufacture of boots, shoes, umbrellas, and parasols; weaving of sail-cloth and fabrics; machine constru ...
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| | | | Angers - Sights: Encyclopedia II - Angers - History The first sign of human presence on the site of Angers is a stone tool dated back to 400,000 BCE (Lower Paleolithic). The earliest known inhabitants were the Andecavi, a Gallic tribe that was overrun by the Romans. The city, while under Roman rule, was called Juliomagus.
Angers was once the capital of the historic province of Anjou. Beginning in the ninth century, the region was controlled by a powerful family of feudal lords. In the twelfth century, it became part of the Angevin empire of the Plantagenet Kings of England. During this ...
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