Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations by Norman Davies

Author:Norman Davies [Davies, Norman]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: General, History, Europe
ISBN: 9781101545348
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

The land from which the Casa Savoia took its name has now belonged to France for more than a century and a half. The départements of Savoie (chef-lieu Chambéry) and of Haute-Savoie (chef-lieu Annecy) form part of the Rhône-Alpes region. They are endowed with huge areas of exceptional natural beauty, including (western) Europe’s highest mountain, Mont-Blanc (15,771 feet), France’s first National Park in the Vanoise, and scores of world-famous ski-resorts – Chamonix, Megève, Val d’Isère, Les Arcs, Meribel, Tignes and Flaine, among others. They also encompass an officially denominated wine-growing region, which stretches from Crépy overlooking Lake Geneva to the flank of the Massif des Bauges south of Chambéry. The AOC Vin de Savoie, much neglected in Paris, includes fine white, red and rosé wines, the most renowned among its twenty-two registered crus being the aromatic, golden Chignin-Bergeron, the dry Apremont made on the slopes of Mont Granier from white Jacquère grapes, the deep-red Mondeuse d’Arbin, and the Roussette de Savoie cru Marestel, which comes from the village of Jongieux, perched on a plateau high above the abbey of Hautecombe.63 These are among the modern successors to the Vitis Allobrogica, recorded in ancient times by both Pliny and Plutarch.

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