Cash-strapped French wine town Saint Emilion sells off historical monument
Cash-strapped French wine town Saint Emilion sells off historical monument
Nov 14, 2011 6
(RFI) - The financial crisis hitting eurozone countries has stretched as far as the famous wine town of Saint Emilion in southwest France where a mayor has sold a medieval monument to pay off debts.
The wine village, near the city of Bordeaux, and nearby vineyards were classified by the UN’s cultural organisation, Unesco, as a world heritage site in 1999 and the sale of the 14th century Cordeliers cloister has angered residents of the city.
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