Pierre Boulat
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Italia Seventeenth century fountain, on the Place Navonna Rome. For the Italian sculptor Bernini, the European river Danube was "the" river and the one he chose to symbolize the continent in the fountain where four rivers represent the four continents. The Danube is represented by a giant spanning a grotto from where a horse jumps out of the foam. On other parts of the fountain, the Ganges, the Nile and the Rio del Plata. -
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Germany According to some poetic sources, the Danube arises at the foot of this beautiful Swabian farm, 840 meters above sea level in the Black Forest, There a dark tired, fed by a channel, receives water from the sky which then flows into a river called Brigach. It would be the furthest from the Black Sea to 2888 kms -
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Germany Sigmaringen - 100 Km. In 1944, Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval installed a provisional government of France in Sigmaringen Castle, former residence of the Hohenzollern. In front of the "Rathaus", a bride out of a Mercedes. -
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Germany ULM - Km 200, is the first major city on the Danube. It was the departure point for the "pontoons Ulm" driving the german settlers , the Swabians from the Danube, towards southern Europe -
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Germany The Benedictine Abbey Weltenburg, founded in 8th century. -
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Germany The Wasser Strasse. Real Suez Canal, the canal Rhein-Main-Donau, 3500 ms waterway for large aircraft, connecting the Black Sea to the North Sea. The channel Hipolstein and Nurnberg-Muchen highway. -
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Germany Passau, Km 541, "The Venice of Bavaria" where silty Inn, coming from Tyrol and Ils coming from Bohemia, join the Danube, doubling its volume of water. -
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Germany The pilgrimage to Mariahilfkirche on the heights of Passau. Pilgrims climb the covered staircase that climbs the hill at 358 meters above the city, stopping to pray at each of the 265 steps. -
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Austria -Linz - Km 627 - Little Ruhr danube. Fumes from furnaces ignite the night of one of the major industrial cities on the river. The musician Anton Bruckner was inspired to water and fire in his 7th symphony. -
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Austria Mauthausen. Vienna, Linz, Salzburg are paved granite from the quarry in Mauthausen, sadly converted into a concentration camp in 1938. 200,000 people died here in the gas chamber or on this "stairs of death" leading to the granite quarries. 186 steep steps made of uneven blocks on which prisoners stumbled and rolled, now converted for easier access. -
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Austria - Wachau A Soviet and Yugoslav tug barge crossing the locks of Persenbeug, 200 meters above sea level, 720 km from the source 2100 ksm Delta. -
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Austria - Wachau The ruins of Aggstein castle dominate the Danube. The Turks destroyed in 1529. -
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Austria Café Central in the heart of Vienna, was the meeting spot of intellectuals at the beginning of the century: Musil, Trotsky were familiar, but the most famous of them was poet Peter Altenberg. A plaster model and pasteboard gives a respectful and disturbing presence. A dreamy look, a hand holding a cup of coffee, Peter is still there. Since his death, after the war of 1915, no customer of Café Central forget to send a silent hello. -
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Austria Cemetery of anonymous or "forgotten" in Vienna. In this enclosure, located along the river, between grain silos and the airport, surrounded by a protective wall against flooding, lie the bodies of all the anonymous corpses recovered in the Danube. 200 small bronze flowered crosses. -
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Austria Hainburg, 970 km from its source, the Danube is the border between Austria and Czechoslovakia. On Background, on the Czech side, the ruins of Devin Castle. -
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Czechoslovakia Bratislava, the new Slovak National Uprising Bridge spans the Danube, connecting the old city to the new and gigantic sets of HLM. Bratislava is currently the capital of Slovakia and is rapidly expanding. 50 000 in 1950, the population grew to 200,000 in 1989. -
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Czechoslovakia 970 km. the diversion works and raising of the Danube between Bratislava and Gabcíkovo are part of larger project undertaken jointly between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, to allow navigation of the river, as part of the link Black Sea - North Sea. The project involves the diversion of the river from its original bed with construction of a channel of 40 km long, rising water 20 meters above the current level of the Danube, three dams for water regulation that annually flooded large areas of farmland, hydro-power plants and two retention lakes respectively 60 square kms and 100 kms long. -
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Czechoslovakia In this part of its course, the Danube divides into many marshy backwaters, the lush vegetation, which are inhabited by many species of waterfowl. The channel will result in the partial drying up of the site, causing an outcry Hungarian environmentalists and various global organizations for nature protection. -
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Czechoslovakia Sturovo, waiting for the ferry that connects the Czech side of the Danube in Esztergom in Hungary. On the opposite, the Cathedral of Esztergom for the inauguration of which Franz Liszt composed his Grande Messe shore. -
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Hungary Km in 1090. Married Esztergom walk along the river. In two years these platforms will be completely inundated by the waters of the dam Nagy Maros. -
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Hungary Nagy Maros - Km 1110 he Mecca of the Hungarian protest against dam project (see above), nicknamed "the Stalinist Monster Danube." According to the protesters he "completely disfigure one of the most beautiful parts of the Danube. Artificial lakes bury considerable historical relics. The new Danube disrupt the ecological balance of an area particularly rich in fauna and socio-economic balance in this part of Hungary. "The gate of the site is now closed. The dispute was temporarily successful and the suspension of work, much to the chagrin of the Czechs, limited to one third of the tonnage and the water pulling boats. -
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Hungary Budapest, the pearl of the Danube. The Chain Bridge and Parliament, taking the traditional view castle hill. -
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Hungary Rivalry of feminine elegance in the streets of Budapest that resemble more those of Western Europe. The Hungarian regained their sexy Look. They were in the 1939 Top Model of the French and American fashion. -
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Hungary A Mohacs at 1410 km from the source, just half way from the delta course, a memorial erected to mark the 450 th anniversary of the Battle commemorates the victory of the army of Suleiman the Magnificent in the Hungarian army. The troops of Louis II of Hungary were cut to pieces, delivering for centuries Hungary to the Turks. -
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Yugoslavia The port of Vukovar. Yugoslavia in great competition with the USSR for 20% of traffic on the Danube river. When connecting Black Sea - North Sea is completed, Belgrade will be the most important transit port. It is already now where large convoys are divided to allow them to go back to Vienna. -
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Bulgaria Vidin, the Turkish stronghold of Baba Vida. School children are the Kung Fu at the monument to the Soviet army. -
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Romania The Cauldron. Upon its entry into Romania, the Danube waters were once full of eddies and swirls. The gigantic dam "Iron Gates 1" changed the landscape. The Danube is now similar to a large tranquil lake whose waters teeming with fish. The fishermen still use these parts in the net balance. -
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Romania In locks with a depth of 15 meters, a convoy of 1,200 tons of iron ore. The transfer from the bottom upwards, closed door locks, takes approximately 1/2 hour. At about 40 kms downstream is another dam, the "Iron Gates 2". -
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Romania Market in Turnu Severine. -
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Romania At the edge of the road, resting peasant women picking corn cobs. -
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Romania Km in 2270. The Danube Zimmicea city completely destroyed by an earthquake March 4, 1979. ILif Victo, violinist, Serban Flueran, Niculina accordionist and his wife, singer, are part of the small band of textile mill town. Each plant should thus have an orchestra. They have been awarded several times great national festival of culture and song of Romania. -
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Romania The arrival of the Grand Canal Danube - Black Sea. 65 kms along this canal connects the city of Cernovada the new port of Constanza. Major works have lasted 15 years and employed by rolling 25,000 workers per month. This is the end point of the great Black Sea Project - North Sea: 3000 kms fitted for navigation widebody. Containers specially designed, shaped barge will be directly unloaded cargo, from the high seas and waves made by convoys of eight with a maximum tonnage of 22,000 tons. -
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Romania Tulcea is the last major city on the Danube. At the entrance of the Delta, its harbor, dominated by a bauxite plant, is the hub of all lines of boats plying the Delta villages. The comings and goings of campers, fishermen, workers freight is incessant. Regular boat services bring ashore villagers or Sulina, extreme tip of an arm of the river, 5 1/2 hours away. -
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Romania Old Russian orthodox church and a group of villagers in the town of Mile 23 in Delta. The population of the Delta, about 25 to 30 thousand people, consists essentially of Lipovans, arrived in the 18th century in Russia. -
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Romania The Danube after 2800 kms, divides into three main arms, one Chilia north, the Sulina center and that of Gheorghe Sfintu southeast, scatters about 4300 square kms of reeds and water lilies, forming hundreds of canals and 50 lakes, some as large seas. This is the realm of the fishermen, but also a fantastic natural waterfowl reserve, 250 species, including 70 non-European. Romanian call Paradise. -
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Romania Km 0. The end of the trip. There is no real mouth of the Danube. It is everywhere in each of these channels, these streams, the streams of water from the Delta. Its waters plunge over 30 meters in the Black Sea, mingling with the steady rhythm of the bag and the surf. Accumulated silt formed on the shores of low and sandy heaths, marshes, the youngest of the continent land. Each year, 40 kms more land.
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Throughout its course, the legend is woven history marked by eastern invasions of Attila and of Suleiman the Magnificent, the mythology with Nibelungen and a fabulous musical memory. Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, French, all of Europe fighted, torned, massacred, divided, shared throughout the river flowing peacefully today at the foot of abbeys and castles and parades’ locks. The last works that change the course of the river are the result of an old ambition that Charlemagne had only sketched in his dreams considering linking the Rhine to the Danube. Thanks to Channel Europe the river, connected to the river Rhine, will be a navigable artery from the Black Sea to the North Sea.
