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Mémorial de Verdun
A museum retracing the 1916 Battle of Verdun, on the very site of the fighting. The Memorial stands in Fleury-devant-Douaumont, one of the villages destroyed during the First World War. Created in 1967 on the initiative of the National Committee…
Château de Foix
A comital fortress overlooking the town, the château of Foix is the symbol of the Counts of Foix. A 12th-century fortified castle whose origins seem to go back to the 10th century, it stands on a rocky platform that controlled…
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…
Ramparts of Aigues-Mortes
A fully enclosed fortified medieval city, once the royal port of Saint Louis. Louis IX acquired the site between 1240 and 1248 and set sail from here in 1248 on the Seventh Crusade. The Tour de Constance was built to…
Écomusée d’Alsace
The largest open-air museum in France, the Écomusée d’Alsace forms a reconstructed Alsatian village in Ungersheim, in the Haut-Rhin. Authentic Alsatian buildings, some dating from the 15th century, were dismantled and rebuilt here: half-timbered houses, workers’ houses, a shop, a…
Aiguilles de Bavella
An emblematic mountain range and starting point for guided hikes. Rising to 1,857 m, the Aiguilles de Bavella overlook the pass of the same name, which links the Alta Rocca to the east coast of Corsica. The site is characterised…
Musée d’Orsay
A former railway station housing the world’s richest collection of Impressionist paintings. Inaugurated in 1986 in the Gare d’Orsay, built by Victor Laloux from 1898 to 1900, this national museum presents Western art from 1848 to 1914, on the banks…
Musée Lalique
Temporarily closed: the museum is currently closed; reopening announced for 28 November 2026. Museum devoted to the work of René Lalique and the art of glass and crystal. Opened in July 2011 in Wingen-sur-Moder, in the Bas-Rhin department, it is…
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Offshoot of the Centre Pompidou with iconic architecture. Opened in 2010 in Metz, between the Parc de la Seille and the railway station, the Centre Pompidou-Metz was the first decentralisation of a national public cultural institution, in this case the…
Aître Saint-Maclou
A former medieval cemetery and ossuary, one of the few of its kind still preserved in Europe. The Saint-Maclou cemetery dates back to the Black Death of 1348; its galleries, built to hold the bones, were erected from 1526 onwards,…
Musée Picasso
Housed in the Château Grimaldi, where Picasso worked in 1946. Built on the ancient acropolis of the Greek city of Antipolis, the present château dates from the 15th century; the town of Antibes bought it in 1925. It has been…
Palais des Papes
The largest Gothic palace in Europe, residence of the popes in the 14th century. Both fortress and palace, the Palais des Papes in Avignon was then the seat of Western Christendom, and six conclaves were held there. It combines two…
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
A museum of the arts and civilisations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac stands on the banks of the Seine, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Designed by the architect…
Musée Grévin
A gallery of life-size wax figures of famous personalities and historical scenes. Founded in 1882 by Arthur Meyer, the Musée Grévin is located on Boulevard Montmartre, in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. It brings together some two hundred wax figures, from Albert…
Château des ducs de Bretagne
A fortress and ducal residence housing the Nantes history museum. Built mainly in the 15th century, the Château des ducs de Bretagne became the main ducal residence of Brittany under Francis II. An edict signed at the château in 1532…
Claude Monet’s Gardens
The house and gardens at Giverny inspired Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. The Impressionist painter settled here in 1883 and lived here until his death in 1926. Owned by the Académie des beaux-arts, the site holds the « Jardin remarquable »…
Village of Locronan
Listed among the Most Beautiful Villages of France, Locronan has preserved its granite architecture from the 17th and 18th centuries. This village in Finistère, between Quimper and Douarnenez, owes its past prosperity to the making of sailcloth, which equipped in…
La Rhune Tourist Train
A historic train climbing to the summit of La Rhune, with views over the Basque Country. Opened in 1924, this rack railway, one of the few still operating in France, departs from the Col de Saint-Ignace, between Ascain and Sare,…
