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Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Nara et Pouchkine


Most French cities are twinned with other towns. Not so Versailles, which merely entertains mostly cultural relationships with two royal or imperial cities: Nara in Japan and Pushkin, formerly Tsarskoye Selo, "the tsar's village", nicknamed the "Russian Versailles" near Saint Petersburg.
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La plupart des villes françaises sont jumelées. Ce n'est point le cas de Versailles qui entretient des relations d'amitié avec d'autres villes royales et impériales, à savoir Nara au Japon et Pouchkine anciennement Tsarskoye Selo, "village des tsars" ou "le Versailles russe" près de Saint-Pétersbourg.
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Photo of Nara courtesy of Japan Guide.com and photo of Alexander's palace in Pushkin courtesy of Wikipedia.