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Gouffre de Proumeyssac
A cavern nicknamed the « crystal cathedral », where a descent by nacelle is possible. The Gouffre de Proumeyssac opens in Audrix, in the Périgord Noir. Explored in 1907 by Gabriel Galou, it consists mainly of one large chamber and…
Alignements de Carnac
The world’s largest group of aligned menhirs, with nearly 3,000 standing stones. The Carnac alignments comprise four megalithic sites, Kermario, Le Ménec, Kerlescan and Le Petit Ménec, in the municipalities of Carnac and La Trinité-sur-Mer. Erected around 4,500 BC, these…
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle du Havre
Natural history museum with long-established collections, housed in an 18th-century building in the centre of Le Havre. Its collections, built up by the naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur, who was its director, cover palaeontology, prehistory and zoology, along with 8,000 drawings…
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres
Gothic masterpiece famous for its 13th-century stained-glass windows. Largely rebuilt in some thirty years in the early 13th century, after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral is considered one of the best-preserved Gothic cathedrals, thanks to its sculptures, stained glass…
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…
Parc animalier de Sainte-Croix
130-hectare park dedicated to European wildlife living in semi-freedom. Opened in 1980 in Rhodes, in Moselle, at the heart of the Lorraine regional nature park, the Parc animalier de Sainte-Croix is home to more than 1,500 animals of 130 species.…
Château de Valençay
Château once owned by Talleyrand, with fine Empire-period furniture. Located in Valençay, in the Indre, in the Berry region, its architecture links it to the châteaux of the Loire, Chambord in particular. Its rebuilding was begun in the 16th century…
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…
Château de Grignan
Renaissance château famous for the letters of Madame de Sévigné. Built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the village of Grignan, in Provençal Drôme, the former stronghold of the Adhémar family was turned into a Renaissance residence in the late 15th…
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
One of the largest museums in France, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is also the largest fine arts museum outside Paris in terms of the number of works on display. Founded in 1792 and opened to the public in…
Réserve naturelle de Scandola
A marine and land reserve reached by boat excursion, notably from Porto or Calvi. Designated in 1975, the Scandola nature reserve covers 1,669 hectares in the commune of Osani, north of the Gulf of Porto. It is a UNESCO World…
Aquarium de Paris – Cinéaqua
Urban aquarium presenting some 500 marine species, with a cinema room. Set beneath the Chaillot hill, between the Trocadéro gardens and the Seine, the Aquarium de Paris occupies former quarries. A first aquarium was created here in 1878; closed in…
Cruises on Lake Annecy
Guided boat trip on Lake Annecy and past its lakeside villages. The second-largest lake of glacial origin in France, excluding the French part of Lake Geneva, it formed at the end of the last ice age, between the Bornes and…
Musée de la Corse
An ethnographic museum dedicated to Corsican culture and traditions, the Musée de la Corse is housed in the citadel of Corte, in the centre of the island, halfway between Bastia and Ajaccio. It combines a museum of art and history…
Camargue – Parc naturel régional
The Rhône delta, to be explored on horseback or by 4×4, with its pink flamingos and its bulls. Created in 1970, the Camargue Regional Nature Park covers a large part of the Grande Camargue, between the arms of the Rhône…
Château du Plessis-Bourré
15th-century château surrounded by wide water-filled moats. Built from 1468 to 1473 for Jean Bourré, treasurer and confidant of King Louis XI, it stands in Écuillé, some fifteen kilometres north of Angers. Its exterior architecture has changed very little in…
