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  Toulon Town Village visit - by Provence Beyond
We've passed through Toulon many times over the years, cursing the traffic as the autoroute on one side dumps you into the city center, to wend your way through to find join the autoroute on the other side of town.
The seafront along the port is a walking area lined with terrace cafés, souvenir shops, fising boats, tour boats for excursions of the Rade de Toulon and the islands, yacht harbor and a backdrop of warships of the naval base.
Toulon is on the main railway line [ RailMap ].
www.beyond.fr /villages/toulon.html   (873 words)

  
  Toulon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toulon (Tolon in Provençal) is a city in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base.
Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur région, Toulon is the préfecture (capital) of the Var département, in the former province of Provence.
Population of the city (commune) at the 1999 census was 160,639 inhabitants (168,200 inhabitants as of February 2004 estimates).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toulon   (226 words)

  
 TOULON - LoveToKnow Article on TOULON
, a seaport and first-class fortress and naval station of France, department of Var, capital of the arrondissement of Toulon, on the Mediterranean, 42 m.
Toulon possesses an observatory and a botanical garden.
Toulon is the most important of the French dockyards, and is the headquarters of the Mediterranean fleet.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TO/TOULON.htm   (462 words)

  
 Toulon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
We can notice that Toulon is a very boring city.
Cuverville (http://www.cuverville.org/) is Toulon's satirical paper, from the nickname of a statue standing on Toulon harbor looking at the sea (cul vers ville = "ass to the city").
Toulonnais.com (http://www.toulonnais.com/) : the monuments, the history, the plans of the city of Toulon.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Toulon   (270 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Toulon, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
An important commercial port and industrial center, Toulon is France's principal naval center on the Mediterranean; shipbuilding and ship repairing are major industries.
Toulon is also a growing center for aerospace and other related industries.
Toulon first achieved eminence as a hostel for errant Crusaders during the Middle Ages.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Toulon.html   (286 words)

  
 Toulon (Municipality, Var, France)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Toulon is the prefecture of Var departement (since 1974), on the Mediterranean sea.
Toulon is the ome city of the famous Provencal actor Raimu and the lyric artist Mayol (author of the unforgottable hit Viens Poupoule).
Toulon is also known for the siege of 1793, when Dugommier seized the city which had been given up to the Brits by French Royalists.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/fr-83-tl.html   (160 words)

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