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5 unusual facts about Fréjus


Alan Spenner

Spenner played bass live at Woodstock in 1969 with Joe Cocker and the Grease band, seen on The Woodstock Directors Cut DVD, and the Roxy Music DVD The High Road, filmed live in Fréjus, France, during August 1982.

Battle of Forum Julii

The exact location of this battle is not mentioned by the historian, however, he alludes to its taking place in Gallia Narbonensis, possibly near modern Fréjus.

Edouard Lapaglie

During the mid-1970s he earned a living as a street musician in Paris and Fréjus when, following an attack by two French locals with a baseball bat, he returned to the UK arriving in Leeds in 1977.

Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers

Marc-Antoine Madelaine Desaugiers was born in Fréjus (Var), son of an accomplished composer for the stage.

Merovingian art and architecture

In Aix-en-Provence, Riez and Fréjus, three octagonal baptistries, each covered with a cupola on pillars, are testimony to the influence of oriental architecture (the baptistry of Riez, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, recalls that of St. George, Ezra', Syria).


Fréjus Rail Tunnel

The Fréjus tunnel remains today as an important link in the connection between Rome and Paris, via Turin and Chambéry.

Maurienne

The A43 autoroute and a railway line enter at the western end from the Isère valley, and leave at Modane using the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels respectively which both emerge at Bardonecchia in Italy.

Punta Bagnà

The easiest route for the summit starts from col du Fréjus, which connects Modane and Bardonecchia, then passes by punta del Fréjus and follows the south-western ridge of the mountain.

The Noise: Frejus

The Noise: Frejus is a live video released by the band King Crimson.


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