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France - Overview
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Good, bad or ugly, everyone has something to say about France and the French: chic, smart, sexy, rude, racist, bureaucratic, bitchy as hell...
Southwestern France - Overview
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- Southwestern France
Though the Côte d’Azur is the most popular beach spot in France, the many seaside resorts along the Atlantic Coast are fast catching up...
Northern France - Overview
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- Northern France
Tucked into the northeast corner of France, this is one of the most densely populated and industrial areas in...
Fort-de-France - Overview
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- Martinique
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Nantes - Overview
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- Nantes
...a series of invasions. A landmark royal charter guaranteeing civil rights to France’s Huguenots (Protestants), the Edict of Nantes, was signed in the city...
Lourdes - Overview
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- France
- Southwestern France
- Lourdes
...including many invalids seeking cures. Nowadays, 58% of pilgrims come from beyond France’s frontiers – and two-thirds are over 45 years old.Accompanying the...
Troyes - Overview
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- Champagne
- Troyes
...Champagne – has a lively old city that’s graced with one of France’s finest ensembles of Gothic churches and medieval and Renaissance half-timbered...
Lille - Overview
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- Northern France
- Lille
Lille (Rijsel in Flemish) may be France’s most underrated major city. In recent decades this once-grimy industrial...
La Rochelle - Overview
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- Southwestern France
- La Rochelle
...gargoyles are rich reminders of La Rochelle’s seafaring past. One of France’s foremost seaports from the 14th to 17th centuries, early French settlers...
Amiens - Overview
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- Northern France
- Amiens
The presence of one of France’s most awe-inspiring Gothic cathedrals is reason enough to head to...
Alsace & Lorraine - Overview
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- Alsace & Lorraine
...of as if they were one, Alsace and Lorraine, neighbouring régions in France’s northeastern corner, are linked by little more than a border through...
Poitiers - Overview
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- Southwestern France
- Poitiers
...Abd ar-Rahman, governor of Córdoba, thus ending Muslim attempts to conquer France. The Romans built up the city, and there are numerous reminders still...
Strasbourg - Overview
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- Alsace & Lorraine
- Strasbourg
Prosperous, cosmopolitan Strasbourg (City of the Roads) is France’s great northeastern metropolis and the intellectual and cultural capital of Alsace...
Mont St-Michel - Overview
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- Normandy
- Mont St-Michel
...of Mont St-Michel are one of the classic images of northern France. Rising from flat white sands, the abbey sits atop a small island...
Dunkirk - Overview
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- Northern France
- Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque), made famous and flattened almost simultaneously (in 1940), was rebuilt during one of the most uninspired periods in Western architecture. Charming it may not be, but the port city...
Beaune - Overview
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- Burgundy & the Rhône
- Beaune
...all, drinking it. Consequently Beaune is one of the best places in France for wine tasting. The jewel of Beaune’s old city is the...
Calais - Overview
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- Northern France
- Calais
As Churchill might have put it, ‘never in the field of human tourism have so many travellers passed through a place and so few stopped to visit.’ Indeed, there are few compelling reasons for the 24 mi...
Fontainebleau - Overview
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- Fontainebleau
...southeast of Paris, is renowned for its elegant Renaissance chateau – one of France’s largest royal residences. It’s much less crowded and pressured than...
Bordeaux - Overview
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- Southwestern France
- Bordeaux
The city long known as La Belle Au Bois Dormant (Sleeping Beauty) is well and truly awake after years of slumber. The turn of the millennium was a major turning point for Bordeaux, when the former may...
Blois - Overview
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- The Loire
- Blois
...it was the seat of the powerful counts of Blois, from whom France’s Capetian kings were descended, and in the 16th century it served...
Monaco - Overview
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- Monaco
...Monaco part of the EU, but because of its close ties with France it participates in the EU customs territory, and there are no border...
Biarritz - Overview
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- Southwestern France
- Biarritz
The stylish coastal town of Biarritz, 8km west of Bayonne, took off as a resort in the mid-19th century when Napoleon III and his Spanish-born wife, Eugénie, visited regularly. For years the darling o...
The Jura - Overview
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- France
- The Jura
...Rhine to the Rhône are one of the least explored pockets in France. If it is peace, tranquillity and a true taste of humble mountain...
Normandy - Overview
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- France
- Normandy
...along the Channel coastline between Brittany and the far reaches of northeast France, Normandy is where the green, pleasant French countryside smacks hard into the...
Bayonne - Overview
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- Europe
- France
- Southwestern France
- Bayonne
Bayonne (‘Baiona’ in Basque) means ‘the good river’. And indeed the wide estuary of the River Adour, into which leaks the smaller River Nive, in a sense still defines the town. The pair establish a wa...










