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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg
A Gothic masterpiece in pink sandstone, famous for its astronomical clock. Founded in 1015 and built from 1220 onwards, Strasbourg’s Cathédrale Notre-Dame is recognisable by its single tower, topped by a spire added in 1439. At 142 metres, it was…
Route des Grands Crus de Bourgogne
A route through the prestigious Burgundy vineyards, with cellar visits. Created in 1937, the Route des Grands Crus de Bourgogne covers some sixty kilometres between Dijon and Santenay and passes through thirty-eight wine villages of the Côte de Nuits and…
Arènes de Nîmes
One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world. Built from around AD 90, at the end of the 1st century, to entertain the people of the colony of Nemausus, the Arènes de Nîmes became a fortified village during the…
Cité de la dentelle et de la mode
A museum devoted to machine-made lace and fashion, housed in a former factory. Opened in 2009 in Calais, the Cité internationale de la dentelle et de la mode occupies the Boulart factory, a lace mill founded in the 1870s and…
Île de Bréhat
A car-free island reached by boat, with coastal paths and gardens. Lying north of the Pointe de l’Arcouest, near Paimpol, the island is reached by a shuttle boat that crosses the Ferlas channel to Port-Clos. Motor vehicles are banned, except…
Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg
A restored medieval fortress overlooking the Alsace plain, the Haut-Kœnigsbourg stands at an altitude of 757 metres in the Vosges mountains, in the commune of Orschwiller. A 12th-century fortified castle, extensively remodelled in the 15th century, it was in ruins…
Château de Chantilly
A château housing the Musée Condé, one of the most important collections of old master paintings in France. The present château was rebuilt in the 19th century for Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale, who installed his collections there before bequeathing…
Cathédrale de Reims
The coronation cathedral of the kings of France, a jewel of Gothic art. From the 11th century onwards, Reims’ Cathédrale Notre-Dame hosted almost all the coronations of the kings of France. Its construction began in the early 13th century and…
Château de Versailles
A former royal residence, with the Hall of Mirrors and formal French gardens. Commissioned by Louis XIV to glorify the monarchy, the château was the main residence of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. The king, the court and…
Historial de la Grande Guerre
A museum retracing the First World War through three of its belligerents: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Opened in 1992 in Péronne, at the heart of the Somme battlefields, the Historial is both a museum, with the « Musée…
Château de Beynac
A medieval fortress perched above the Dordogne valley. Built from the 12th century by the barons of Beynac to lock down the valley, the château towers over the village of Beynac-et-Cazenac from a cliff that drops sheer to the Dordogne,…
Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans
Royal salt works designed by the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Built under Louis XV near the forest of Chaux, it processed brine brought from Salins-les-Bains through a 21 km brine pipeline. It operated until 1895. The site has been a UNESCO…
Cité de Carcassonne
Fortified medieval city, considered the largest fortress in Europe. Overlooking the Aude valley, the Cité de Carcassonne owes its fame to its double ring of walls, almost 3 kilometres long and punctuated by fifty-two towers. Its origins go back to…
Citadelle de Port-Louis – Musée de la Compagnie des Indes
A citadel housing the collections of the Musée de la Compagnie des Indes (East India Company Museum). Built in the 16th century by the Spanish and altered in the 17th century by the French, the Citadelle de Port-Louis guards the…
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
One of the oldest museums in France, housed in the former ducal palace of Dijon. Seat of the Burgundian State in the 15th century, the palace later became the king’s residence, then the palace of the States of Burgundy in…
Parc naturel régional des Marais du Cotentin
A vast wetland, ideal for boat trips and for discovering the local wildlife. Created in 1991, the Parc naturel régional des Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin protects wet meadows that the winter floods cover, or “whiten”. Its visitor centre,…
Canal du Midi
A guided cruise on the historic canal which, extended by the Garonne lateral canal, links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Designed by Pierre-Paul Riquet and regarded by his contemporaries as the greatest construction project of the 17th century, the Canal…
