LAVAL

                            (Francia)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Francesco Paolo Giammanco                            Giorgia Sessa                                                 Andrew Marchione                                          Giuseppe Occorso                                                                         

Laval is a french town of 54,020 inhabitants and is the capital  of the departiment  of  Mayenne,  located in the  Loire. It  has an area  of 34,22 km  and a  density of  1578.61  inhabitants square kilometer. The inhabitants are called  lavallois/lavalloises .

                FOOD

Matelote d’anguilles;

Poulet en Barbouille;

Sandre au beurre blanc;

Rillons;

Patè de Chartres;

                               MONUMENTS                                                                                                                                      Cathedral of laval                                                                Cathedral of sainte trinitè;                                                      Old stone bridge;                                                                    Diocese of Laval.                                                          

 Old stone bridge            

In Laval there is beutiful medieval bridge built in the 13th century in place of an ancient ford that had been submergerd when the waters were gathered for use  by mills.

Three elegant stone archers still in good condition(altough restorations were also necessary due to war damage).

The diocese of Laval is a seat the Catholic church in France suffragenea  of the archdiocese of Renner. In 2016 it had 282783 inhabitants. Is governed byb Bishop Thierry Scerrer

            Cathedrale of sainte trinitè                                                                                        The church built between 1861 and 1867 on the project  of the architect Thèodore Ballu, has a very decorated facede, which is ispired by the Italian Renaissonce and the  Basilicata of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome

           What to visit

The Grenoble museum 

Regional Natural Park of the Vercos