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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...

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Tucked into the northeast corner of France, this is one of the most densely populated and industrial areas in...

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Fort-de-France, the island capital, is the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the...

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...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...

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...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...

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The presence of one of France’s most awe-inspiring Gothic cathedrals is reason enough to head to...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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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...

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...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...

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...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...

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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...

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A longtime oyster harvesting area on the southern side of the tranquil, triangular Bassin d’Arcachon (Arcachon Bay), this seaside town lured bourgeois Bordelaise at the end of the 19th century. Its fo...

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...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...

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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...

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...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...

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