FALL PAINTING IN
THE FRENCH PYRENEES
Artist
Retreat
Location: Cauterets, Parc
National des Pyrenees, France
Workshop dates: 9/8/2007 - 9/22/2007
Limit: 6 persons per week
Cost: $ 1,500 / week (per person double occupancy)
A romantic and
inspiring all media working retreat for artists, photographers,
writers, their
spouses and friends in the beautiful French Pyrenees.
It
includes:
Choice of
one or two
weeks.
$100-
discount if you
choose a two week stay.
Transportation
from Lourdes (TGV train
station) or Tarbes
(airport) and back.
Housing in
an elegant
early 1900s hotel.
French
style meals
including wine.
Breakfast
and Dinner
included.
No
organized
instruction. Daily group critique of our
work.
Daily en
plein air
painting excursions.
Excursions will
include, but are not limited, to the following:
Cirque de Gavarnie
One of the most
popular tourist sights in the Pyrenees.
“Here the
longest waterfall in Europe, at 787
ft.,
cascades off the mountain into space, encircled by eleven 9,800 ft.
peaks.” (
Eyewitness Travel Guide) Classified by UNESCO as a
World Heritage Site.
Le Pont
d’Espagna
A scenic old stone
bridge high over the confluence of two foaming “gaves.”(mountain river).
Luz-St-Sauveur
“The oldest, most
attractive part of Luz St.Sauveur is its upper quarter, hosting a
Monday
market. It radiates from the fortified 12th C. church of
Saint-Andre.”(The Rough Guide to the Pyrenees).
Crossing the river we’ll visit the 13th C. Chateau Sainte-Marie.
Bagneres-de-Bigorre
“ The ‘in’ place
for George Sand, Rossini, Gustave Flaubert, in the first half of the 19th
C., now hosts Musee Salies, an elegant art collection, with some
surprising
artists represented.” (Rough Guide)
And….Cauterets
“Idyllic alpine
setting, the elegant spa and mountain-sports playground,
features colonnaded and
iron-balconied neoclassical
buildings.”(Rough
Guide)
Louis Napoleon and
his wife Hortense stayed here, as well as
Victor Hugo, Alfred Tennyson, Chateaubriand, Debussy and Edward
VII of England.
Now us!
Optional:
Cauterets famous Thermal Waters Spa
- Ice skating
- Hiking
-
Casino and dancing
-
Visit to Lourdes
For more information,
contact Maria Aeberhard: maeberha@yahoo.com,
Or by phone:
949-360-1519.
Related websites:
www.minnievaleroart.com,
www.mycauterets.com
, www.cauterets.com , www.parc-pyrenees.com
