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Eiffel Tower Paris
1075 Reviews The Eiffel Tower (French: la Tour Eiffel) is a monument in Paris and one of the most visited attractions in France. He stands on the left bank of the Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The...
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Vieux Nice/Old Town Nice
83 Reviews Wow! One of the best memories of Nice is the old town market called Cours Saleya. Old town, Vieille Ville, is another wow, but this is just about the market. Wake up early, walk from your hotel to the...
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Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière Lyon
43 Reviews Looming above Lyon from its position on a hilltop on the right bank of the Saône, the Basilica Notre-Dame de Fourvière can be seen from numerous places in the city. So it is certainly a prominent...
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Aiguille Du Midi Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
33 Reviews What? At ca. 3,800, Aiguille du Midi gets you as close to Mont Blanc as you can get without mountain climbing skills or inclinations. At ca. EUR 50 per person, the cable car is pricey, but very much...
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The Hall of Mirrors ( La Galerie des Glaces ) Versailles
49 Reviews The Hall of Mirrors is by far the most impressive of the rooms in the Versailles Palace. The principal feature of this famous hall is the seventeen mirror-clad arches that reflect the seventeen...
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Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde Marseille
42 Reviews In 1214, the abbot of St Victor allowed a hermit, Master Peter, to construct a chapel on this hill. He quite naturally called it the Chapel de la Garde, the name of the hill on which there was a watch...
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Beaches - Plages Cannes
25 Reviews Yes there are public free beaches in Cannes even at the Croisette and they are as clean as the private beaches. As what concerns the crowd it all depends from the season and also of the time of the...
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Place du General de Gaulle / Grand Place Lille
15 Reviews You will not often see the Grand Place as empty as it was here on a Sunday morning. On other days it is the place where people meet and mingle; just walk across to get around this compact old city;...
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Notre-Dame Cathedral Strasbourg
119 Reviews You will be attracted like a magnet to the cathedral. It's huge, and dominates the city. The little streets are quaint, full of people in the best of time and pleasant for a stroll, maybe with an ice...
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St. Sernin Basilica Toulouse
19 Reviews Romanesque style and built between about 1.080 and 1.120, this Basilica is the former abbey church of the Abbey of St. Sernin or St. Saturnin. It's an important site for pilgrims on the Way of...
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NOTREDAME CATHEDRAL Rouen
78 Reviews If you've seen Monet's paintings of the Cathedral in Rouen at the Musée d'Orsay, a visit to the cathedral will be a very special experience for you. You can revisit it at various times of the day and...
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Cathédrale Saint Sauveur Aix-en-Provence
13 Reviews The cloister of the church of St. Sauveur is one hindred years older than the church. It is Romanesque and was built between 1180 and the early years of the 13C at the same time as the cloister at...
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Palais des Papes Avignon
58 Reviews In the present view the Palace represents the significant construction. In its territory there is Notre Dame Cathedral on which roof there is the huge statue of maiden Maria is installed. The Popes’...
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Cathédrale Notre Dame Reims
43 Reviews The site of the coronation of France's kings for centuries, la Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims is among the most important in French history. It is also considered a masterpiece of Gothic architecture,...
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The Abbey Mont Saint Michel
25 Reviews The Abbey Church built in the early years 0f 1000, is located right on top of the rock, 80 metres above sea level, on a platform 80metres long. Inside are Arches, Galleries and tall windows. The...
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Old Town Colmar
55 Reviews In the square you can pick up an easy 4-mile English tour through the Old Town. We understand that the train does not stop, so you will have to return to take photos unless you have a fast camera. We...
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Castles Tours
33 Reviews 1hour south of Chinon is the beautiful castle of Rivau. You have to drive there (exit st maure) but it is worth it as the gardens are really beautiful ! I went there with my kids and they loved it,...
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Hospices de Beaune Beaune
33 Reviews The grand hall of the poor. It is for the visitors the most spectacular part of the Hôtel-Dieu with its 50 m length and 16 m in height. The furniture of medieval style one sees dates of the...
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Walk the Streets Yvoire
6 Reviews The last invasion of Yvoire is surely by the greenery. When stolling in the streets, you could enjoy many flowers and the famous Garden of the Fives Senses (entrance fee). Since many years Yvoire...
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Montmartre - Sacré Coeur Paris
717 Reviews Basil Sacre Ceur is visible from any point of the city as it is placed at the top of the hill La Butt in area of Montmartre. It was erected in 1876 in the Romanian-Byzantian style. The ladder...
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Beach Nice
73 Reviews You must wear Jellies ! The stony beaches can hurt and be hot in the summer so wear the right thing on the beach. If you don't like the look of the person next to you then move away some were else. I...
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Vieux Lyon - general Lyon
43 Reviews A lovely old town to explore and is worth at least an afternoon of anyones time! Enjoyed our afternoon here albeit a freezing cold one and also too a ride on the funicular(later tip) up the Fourviere...
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Mer de Glace & Montenvers Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
15 Reviews It's quite an experience, using the mechanical means to go up and down the mountain, and to walk several meters inside the glacier (with the advantage of being the shortest of the three rides locally...
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Basins, fountains and statues Versailles
79 Reviews Are you still thinking what I mentioned earlier? Yes, the Sun King was green with ENVY at one point in his life and it was one of those things that led to the creation of Versailles... The King had...
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Les Calanques Marseille
21 Reviews Hello, I am the owner of Blue Attractions Marseille, Blue Attractions is the english version of the well known marseille's company "bleu evasion". We offer trips in the Calanques on comfortable boats,...
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If you're in the French Alps and close to Chamonix, it's worth taking the Aguille du Midi cable car. It's the closest you'll get to the summit of Mont Blanc without an ice axe and crampons and the views are fantastic.
try not to overload yourself with doing. spend some time just being. . . absorbe the ambience.journal about your trip: where you have gone, what you've seen, eaten. you will enjoy what you do so much more if you are not exhausted.you will be happy you journaled when you get home and can reread your notes, and relive the trip a little.
The gondola ride to the top of the Aiguille Du Midi and across to Pointe Helbronner in Italy.This was the single most spectacular thing that we did in 3 months traveling in Europe. The cable car to the top of the Aiguilee Du Midi is very steep and quite frightening. We climbed straight up, a few feet from the mountain. I was so frightened that I could not open my eyes near the top, where it was the steepest. The cable car ride across the glacier was even more spectacular. You get in a small cable car that holds 4 people and hang from the wire for 20 minutes across the white expanse of ice and snow. Sometimes you stop and sit for 1-2 minutes hanging, surrounded by mountains, above the glacier glistening white below. You can look deep into fizzures and deep ccrevasses and see small groups of people, like ants, slowly crossing the glacier far below. I have never been to a more beautiful...
Visit the small towns of France. The people are delightful and very hospitable. One that I would recommend is Nogent-le-Rotrou, located between Chartres and LeMans.A beautiful medieval château is located on a butte right in the middle of town. It dates from the days of William the Conqueror and also houses the Musée du Perche, the name of the local area. Also on every Saturday, the local square is filled with activity when the Marché (the market) is operating. Fascinating!
St. Malo, a city north of the presqu-ile Bretagne - the tides are very high here and there's a powerstation using the tide's height difference (18 meters!)... The city itself is surrounded by walls (you can walk on) and you get very good fish soup and moules (mussels). The incoming tides are so forceful that you still get weg sitting 10 meters above on theouter wall to the shore and the water actually splashes far over it and onto the road behind.
Danse the French Can-Can!!At a fancy-dress party it will go down an absolute storm! Everybody loved the surprise and we were delighted with the effect it had on setting the mood for a super party!!Absolute must!! Just look at those legs!!
Diving in the southThe mediterranean sea is perfect for this, especially around the islands of Porc-Cros, Porquerolles and of course Corsica.More infos about this picture took by Nico and some other nice old boats and planes to see in the south:http://www.multimania.com/nicoblon/epave.htm
If you're going to visit France, you MUST go see Mont St Michel. If you love architecture and history.....When you do go, dress warmly. It was very windy there.It's an Abbey, constructed on an artificial island....the story says that one day, the Arch Angel Michael came to a Benedictine monk in a dream, and told him to build this abbey. So the priest did, and the construction lasted from the year 1000 until the 16th century. There is a low tide during the daytime, and a high tide during the evening. That means that when you are visiting during the day, you can only see sand all around. Absolutely beautiful!
all the usual(in paris) though the red light distric can be very dangerous so take care>below is a post card(i DIDN'T TAKE THIS PIC) of la place vendomesee cab show they are fun and the girls are very sexy
In our 3 days we saw the Louvre (we didn't want to go to tons of museums, but this is a must), Pompidou, Sacre Couer, Notre Dame, the Sunday market off the Porte de Clignancourt metro, Eiffel Tower.It was the entire setting, architecture, art, the exterior.
Four Seasons George V Paris Paris
5 Reviews and 556 Opinions The Four Seasons George V is truly one of the world's great hotels. I really, really love to stay...
Palais de la Mediterranee Nice
3 Reviews and 674 Opinions The hotel was amazing, right on the beach. It was very clean and the rooms were of excellent...
Hotel Gutenberg Strasbourg
1 Review and 183 Opinions I toured Alsace by bicycle in mid-September, 2008. After the group ride was over, I stayed for 3...
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