Pyrenees Travel Poster: Cirque de Gavarnie by F. Hugo d’Alési, 1890 deauville Kazan: Founded in the medieval

Kazan: Founded in the medieval period

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Pyrenees Travel Poster: Cirque de Gavarnie by F. Hugo d’Alési, 1890 deauville Kazan: Founded in the medievalLes Pyrnes cirque de Gavarnie by F. Hugo dAlsi (Frdric Alexianu), published in 1890, captures the romance of turnofthecentury travel at the very moment railways opened the high country to curious wanderers. Set in the heart of the French Pyrenees, the scene looks toward the famed natural amphitheatre of Gavarnie in the HautesPyrnes of southwestern Francea place of soaring limestone walls, tumbling waters, and meadows where pastoral life brushes up