This village in the bocage of damp Champagne is crossed by streets, spanned by a dozen bridges, the oldest of which dates from 1607. ", explains Alexis Gilbert, director of the tourist office. It was the time of an awareness of the interest in promoting the sites of the department With 400 inhabitants, the town of Soulaines-Dhuys took the name of Venise Verte de l'Aube much more recently, some twenty years ago. Soulaines-Dhuys took the appellation of Venise Verte twenty years ago. », Remarks Sylvie Auquit, founder of the local tour operator Thisytravel, which has been offering a new tour on digital tablet since July 2021. The 15th century bridge was once covered with dwellings, like the Rialto Bridge
The reflections of the facades on the water add their soothing, timeless touch, which can also be seen in Argenton-sur-Creuse, the little Venice of Berry, where the houses with wooden galleries seem to be suspended above the river. ”analyzes Lesly Reynaud, director of the tourist office. Sometimes perhaps exaggerated, this term of Little Venice brings dreams, This is not the Grand Canal in Venice! But we have the impression of being on vacation, with a scent from elsewhere. In Goudargues, little Venice of the Gard, a single canal crosses this town of 3000 inhabitants, bordered by restaurant terraces in a dolce vita atmosphere In Goudargues, little Venice of the Gard, a single canal crosses the town. ”, thus summarizes Isabelle Martre, guide and lecturer. If there is a slight resemblance to the Serenissima, it is above all a historical reality of canals built in old marshes This fishing tradition was also strong in Vaucluse, in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, the Comtadine Venice with waters rich in trout, crayfish and eels. Jetties, ”notes Nathalie Delanney, director of the tourist office. Here and there we can see the remains of wooden
Today, as in Veneto, pedestrians get lost from one canal to another through medieval alleys. Flat-bottomed barges, called escaudes or escaudes, were used to transport lime or grain.
In Norman Little Venice, at Pont-Audemer in the Eure, the canals located between two arms of the Risle were used by fishermen who cast their nets as far as the estuary of the Seine. It is worth to the Picardy capital to be nicknamed the Venice of the North.Ī title shared with Bruges, in Belgium, this comparison game being far from being the prerogative of France. The same ancestral use is found in Amiens, in the Somme, where market gardeners transported their products through a maze of canals. This river allowed farmers to transport their vegetables to the quay of the covered market in Colmar, aboard flat-bottomed boats. It was in the Middle Ages that the swamps located to the south of the city were transformed into market gardening areas irrigated by the Lauch river dates back to the Middle Ages.
», Underlines Claire Weiss, director of the tourist office. We find this appellation on tourist maps of the interwar period In Alsace, the nickname of Little Venice given to Colmar does not seem to be born out of the last rain either, for a postcard decor forged over the centuries. »», Justifies Julie Martinet, director of the tourist office of this bucolic village in the Dordogne. “In Brantôme, it is certainly not a marketing term born in the 1980s: it was invented by President Raymond Poincaré who exclaimed when he came in 1913:“ Is it legitimate, on the pretext that they are located at the water's edge. On this list, iconic tourist destinations such as Annecy, little Venice in the Alps, rub shoulders with little-known towns such as La Canourgue, little Venice in Lozère, or Bonneval, little Venice in Beauce.īut why do so many towns and villages compare to the City of the Doges? Result of the races: at least fifty "little Venice" are listed within France. By typing on the Internet "little Venice", department after department, from Ain (01) to Val d'Oise (95), the list continues to grow.
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