France
France has many cities of cultural interest, some of them are classified as *Town of Art and History. Many dream of its joie de vivre shown by the countless cafés, picturesque villages, and world-famous gastronomy. Paris has the reputation of being the most beautiful and romantic of all cities, brimming with historic associations and remaining vastly influential in the realms of culture.
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France has 45 sites inscribed in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List and features cities or sites of high cultural interest Paris being the foremost, but also Loire Valley (map), Toulouse (map), Strasbourg (map), Bordeaux (map), Lyon (map).
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Small and picturesque French villages of quality heritage (such as Collonges-la-Rouge (map), Locronan (map), or *Montsoreau (map) are promoted through the association les-plus-beaux-villages-de-france.org (The Most Beautiful Villages of France).
With its international reputation for fine dining, few people would be surprised to hear that *French cuisine can certainly be very good. French cuisine as a whole has been inscribed on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
Paris hosts some of the world’s most recognizable landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower (map), which is the most-visited paid monument in the world, the Arc de Triomphe (map), the cathedral of Notre-Dame (map), or the Sacré-Cœur (map) on *Montmartre (map).
Bordeaux is famous for its wine but is also a bustling city with lots of historic sights to discover. It is listed as a World Heritage Site for being “an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble”. Lyon, the country’s second largest city, is listed too, and boasts a beautiful old centre as well as a number of Roman ruins.
As the French have a real taste for art, the country has numerous art galleries and museums. Several of them are widely considered to be among the finest museums in the world of art, art-history, and culture. The grandeur and fame of the Musée du Louvre (map) in Paris can hardly be matched by any other museum in the world.
At a 15-minute walk from there is the Musée d’Orsay (map), another world class museum that picks up roughly where the Louvre’s collections ends. The Musée National d’Art Moderne in Centre Pompidou (map), still in France’s capital, is the largest museum for modern art in Europe. In Lille you’ll find the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, one of the country’s largest museums. Its varied collection is the second largest after the Louvre and boasts everything from antiquities to modern art.
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- Arc de Triomphe, Paris
- Bastille Day (la Fête nationale)
- Catacombs of Paris (ossuary)
- City of Aix-en-Provence
- City of Albi
- City of Annecy
- City of Arles
- City of Avignon
- City of Besançon
- City of Bordeaux
- City of Carcassonne
- City of Dijon
- City of La Rochelle
- City of Lille
- City of Lyon
- City of Marseille
- City of Nantes
- City of Nice
- City of Nimes
- City of Paris
- City of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie
- City of Saint-Malo
- City of Strasbourg
- City of Toulouse
- Eiffel Tower, Paris
- Festival of Giants (Gayant), Douai
- Fontainebleau
- Louvre Museum
- Mont Saint-Michel
- Musee d’Orsay, Paris
- National Museum of Modern Art
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Palace of Versailles
- Verdon Gorge
- Arc de Triomphe, Paris
- Bastille Day (la Fête nationale)
- Catacombs of Paris (ossuary)
- City of Aix-en-Provence
- City of Albi
- City of Annecy
- City of Arles
- City of Avignon
- City of Besançon
- City of Bordeaux
- City of Carcassonne
- City of Dijon
- City of La Rochelle
- City of Lille
- City of Lyon
- City of Marseille
- City of Nantes
- City of Nice
- City of Nimes
- City of Paris
- City of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie
- City of Saint-Malo
- City of Strasbourg
- City of Toulouse
- Eiffel Tower, Paris
- Festival of Giants (Gayant), Douai
- Fontainebleau
- Louvre Museum
- Mont Saint-Michel
- Musee d’Orsay, Paris
- National Museum of Modern Art
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Palace of Versailles
- Verdon Gorge
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Regions & Cities of France
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The *French Riviera (Côte d’Azur, map), in southeastern France, is the second leading tourist destination in the country, after the Parisian region. Main cities on the French Riviera include Nice (map), Antibes (map) and Cannes (map); Cap Ferrat (map) is also a popular destination.
Provence – numerous famous natural sites can be found in the region, as the Gorges du Verdon (map), the Camargue (map), the Calanques National Park (map) and the typical landscape of *Luberon.
Loire Valley – This World Heritage Site is noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise (map), Angers (map), Blois (map), *Chinon (map), *Orléans (map), and Saumur (map) >> +*Châteaux of the Loire Valley)
French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (map) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions. Notable towns in the French Alps include Grenoble (map), Chamonix (map), Annecy (map) is called “the Venice of Savoie”, Chambéry (map), Évian-les-Bains (map) and Albertville (map).
Corsica – is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily, Sardinia and Cyprus. It is a popular attraction for tourists with both cultural aspects (cities *Ajaccio and *Bastia) and geographical features (Parc naturel régional de Corse, map).
Aix-en-Provence
Ajaccio
Albi
Amboise
Amiens
Angers
Angoulême
Arles
Arras
Aurillac
Autun
Auxerre
Avallon
Avignon
Bayeux
Bayonne
Beaune
Beauvais
Besançon
Béziers
Biarritz
Blois
Bordeaux
Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Bourges
Brest
Caen
Calais
Cannes
Carcassonne
Chablis
Châlons-en-Champagne
Chambéry
Chamonix
Chantilly
Chartres
Château Gontier
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Chinon
Clermont-Ferrand
Colmar
Dieppe
Dijon
Douai
Dunkirk
Eguisheim
Épernay
Épinal
Fontainebleau
Fontenay-Le-Comte
Grenoble
Honfleur
Kaysersberg
La Baule
La Rochelle
Laon
Le Havre
Le Mans
Le Touquet
Lens
Les Sables d’Olonne
Lille
Limoges
Lorient
Lyon
Mâcon
Marseille
Mayenne
Meaux
Metz
Migennes
Montpellier
Montreuil
Mulhouse
Nancy
Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne
Nantes
Narbonne
Neuf-Brisach
Neufchâtel-Hardelot
Nevers
Nice
Nîmes
Orléans
Paray-le-Monial
Paris
Périgueux
Perpignan
Poitiers
Provins
Quiberon
Quimper
Reims
Rennes
Ribeauvillé
Riquewihr
Rouen
Saint-Brieuc
Saint-Claude
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Malo
Saint-Nazaire
Samoëns
Saulieu
Saumur
Sélestat
Semur-en-Auxois
Sens
Strasbourg
Toulon
Toulouse
Troyes
Vannes
Verdun
Versailles
Vézelay
Vitré
Vittel
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / adm. center Lyon
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté / adm. center Dijon, Besançon
Brittany / adm. center Rennes
Centre-Val de Loire / adm. center Orléans
Corsica / adm. center Ajaccio
Île-de-France / adm. center Paris
Normandy / adm. center Caen, Rouen
Nouvelle-Aquitaine / adm. center Bordeaux
Occitanie / adm. center Toulouse
Pays de la Loire / adm. center Nantes
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur / adm. center Marseille
Alsace / adm. center Strasbourg
Champagne-Ardenne / Châlons-en-Champagne
Lorraine / adm. center Metz
Hauts-de-France
Nord-Pas-de-Calais / adm. center Lille
Picardy / adm. center Amiens
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