...étape dans la route de la fonte qui expose...

English translation: tourist trail displaying...

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French term or phrase:...étape dans la route de la fonte qui expose...
English translation:tourist trail displaying...
Entered by: Angela Dickson (X)

16:42 Apr 14, 2006
French to English translations [PRO]
Tourism & Travel
French term or phrase: ...étape dans la route de la fonte qui expose...
Maybe it's time for a break, but I can't seem to get to grips with this sentence at all, from a tourist website:

Les communes de Montier-en-Der et de Ceffonds forment une étape dans la route de la fonte qui expose la production monumentale des usines métallurgiques de la région (Sommevoire et Val d’Osne).

Anyone undertand what they're getting at? Many thanks for any advice...
Philip Taylor
Local time: 07:00
tourist trail
Explanation:
Quite a French thing, I think - if this is foundry country, there will be a number of such places, so this is one step on the tourist trail locally. For those keen tourists who are interested in the history of metalwork.

hope this helps.

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Note added at 38 mins (2006-04-14 17:21:12 GMT)
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exposer - I'd use something general like 'puts on display', 'demonstrates', 'exhibits' or one of many other options. You 'expose' paintings in a gallery, for example.
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Angela Dickson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:00
Grading comment
Many thanks.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3tourist trail
Angela Dickson (X)
3a tourist route
Patrick and Carol Collins


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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
tourist trail


Explanation:
Quite a French thing, I think - if this is foundry country, there will be a number of such places, so this is one step on the tourist trail locally. For those keen tourists who are interested in the history of metalwork.

hope this helps.

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Note added at 38 mins (2006-04-14 17:21:12 GMT)
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exposer - I'd use something general like 'puts on display', 'demonstrates', 'exhibits' or one of many other options. You 'expose' paintings in a gallery, for example.

Angela Dickson (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:00
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Many thanks.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Joanne Nebbia: Think you could use "where you can see" rather than the direct tense translation of exposer in this context :)
3 hrs

agree  Claire Cox: or maybe even industrial trail to get over some notion of the "fonte" - and perhaps highlights or focuses on for "expose"
4 hrs

agree  Julie Barber
15 hrs
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
a tourist route


Explanation:
along the tourist route though a metallurgy /mining region with its ....

We visited the same type of area in NZ in the old gold-mining region. There were stops and points of interest along the way. Here we have the wine route - route de vignobles.

Patrick and Carol Collins
Local time: 08:00
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PRO pts in category: 8
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