Provence is a region which have kept a lot of typical places, particularly in the countryside or old places. These places attract a lot of tourists from a lot of countries.

Frenchs are yet the most numerous to come there but the international tourism is steadily increasing. There is more than 14 billions € of tourist comsumption every year.

Tourism is an important part of the Provence’s economy, millions of tourists come here every year, people come here to hike, repose themselves, go to some festivals, visit some places. Provence is the one of the most touristy area in France. In winter you can skiing, cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing, in summer you can hiking, go to the beach…

Marseille is the capital city of Provence.This the second largest city of France. It’s a very touristy city. Moreover it was European Capital of Culture in 2013. It has attracted many tourists. In 2013 Marseille has attracted over 6 million tourists.

The city of Bollène

Population: 14 040 hab.

Département Vaucluse Arrondissement Avignon Canton Bollène Mayor : Marie-Claude Bompard

mandat 2014-2020 Density 260 hab./km2

Superficy 54,03 km2

Bollène is located in an underprivileged area that is characterized by a high unemployment rate, in spite of its touristic attractiveness. Most of our students come from disadvantaged social backgrounds, as almost 40 % of the parents are either from the working-class or unemployed, and a lot of the children are from the first or the second generation of immigrants coming from Africa or Eastern countries. In addition to all that, the school is situated in a rural zone, that’s why we are eager to develop European projects in order to open our students’ minds to other European countries, cultures, and languages, and to contribute to a more unified European Union, without any distrust or prejudices. Given the economic plight in which many of our pupils are, we aim at giving them additional chances to succeed in their lives and to have a more positive vision of their future. That’s why we came up with the idea of this project, because we think pupils need to develop the idea of self-employment. This project will enable our students to gain autonomy and self-confidence and to acquire the skills to meet the challenges of their future careers. Our involvement in the project will be as deep as our partner’s throughout the whole project, since the exchange of information on how to run business is the core of the project. We will be in charge of specific tasks, such as the organization of an ad contest and setting up a forum with local businessmen during the partner school’s visits in our town.

AVIGNON

Avignon is a commune of the south of France, situated in the Vaucluse in the Provence-Alpes Côte-d'Azur. There are 89 683 inhabitants in this commune.

LE PONT D’AVIGNON

Le Pont d'Avignon today welcomes 400,000 visitors a year.

This bridge was built in 1177 at 1185.

PALACE OF THE POPES

The Palais des Papes is the symbol of the influence of the church on the Christian West in the fourteenth century.

The Popes' Palace welcomes 600,000 visitors a year. It is one of the most visited monuments in France.

LE FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON

The Avignon Festival is an annual theater festival founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar. It takes place every summer in July in the

courtyard of the Palace of the Popes.

Marseille

Marseille, une ville touristique:

Marseille contains one of the biggest ports of Europe, we can visit creeks. This city is one of more visited by France with 4 million visitors 2 most department store of the paca region are has Marseille big Litoral and Valentine the stage(stadium) Velodrome is one of the biggest Stade de France several renowned sportsman born sound has Marseille Zidane, Cantona.

Marseille is capital cultural in Europe in 2013 and also the host of the Europride. Marseille is a cosmopolitan city.

Europride is a Paneuropean demonstration similar to the Gay Pride but which has for peculiarity to be welcomed by an European city every different year.

Marseille est ses édifices Marseille account 80 buildings containing at least

a protection in conformance with historic monuments

Notre-Dame de la Garde, also called locally " the Good Mother " is situated in the city of Marseille

The Cathedral of the Major company or the basilica of Sainte-Marie-Majeure ( the Major company) is the cathedral of the city of Marseille

The Docks of Marseille are a set of five buildings(ships) which served previously as warehouses, today they are offices(desks)

The Palais de la Bourse is a symbolic monument of the city of Marseille situated on Canebière

BOLLENE« Concordia turis fortissima »

Patrimoine :

The Collégiale St Martin : for over 500 years, the Collégiale St Martin, which is a church, has stood over the city of Bollène.

Wrestler statue :

Felix Charpentier wanted to capture the moment and in memory of his father carved this work of art. Greco-Roman wrestling was a very popular sport in Provence. He began his work in 1893.

Greco-Roman wrestling was a very popular sport in Provence. He began his work in 1893.

The City Hall :

Created in the 19th century, this beautiful city hall is an architectural pride for Bollène.

Where is Bollène ?

Bollène is situated in the North of the department of Vaucluse. It is in the south of the France.

Bollène

Landscapes of Bollene:

Outside the city, the site of Barry offers an interesting historical testimony of Bollène with no less than five stages of civilizations meet there from Celtic oppidum. But what interests first visitors, the troglodyte village inhabited from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century and is an architectural model of this kind.

Troglodyte village in Barry.

Vines in Bollène.

The vines in Bollene dominates the landscape around Bollene and the other city of Vaucluse.The region is a good business for the red and white wine and the rosé ( an other kind of wine) .

For example, this is red wine (on the left) and white wine (on the right).

THE BUSINESS OF THE REGION OF BOLLENE

The nougat de Montélimar

One of the oldest factory of nougat de montélimar

The CASSAN company

The lavender

The business of the région of Bollene

Gastronomy

Mets of Provence

The business of mets de Provence sell a speciality of Provence . The business sell the most famous specialty in France.

French wines

The other speciality of Provence is a wine product in the area of bollene

Château of Gourdon

The château of gourdon is a most famous cellar in bollene . This business export her wine in America , India and China .

Customers are mainly inhabitants of the area near wineries. there are three types of customers: regular customers, French tourists and foreigners. Customers looking for quality and attractive price for their wines.