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Eiffel Tower Paris
1076 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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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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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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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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The Cote d'Albatre or Alabaster coast is so called because of the chalky high cliffs which form the Normandy coast from Le Havre to Le Triport. It is famous for the eroded arch of Falaise d'val west of Etratat. Guy de Maupassant said that these cliffs were like an elephant dipping its trunk in to the water.We wanted to visit the high granite coast around Etretat and do some walking. Take some good walking boots or shoes there are some good walks along the coast.
Giverny is a little village that would be unimportant if the Impressionist Claude Monet had not lived there. The house is lovely; the painter lived in it from 1883 until his death in 1926. Claude Monet is buried in the church cemetery in Giverny.The house where Monet lived, known as the Fondation Claude Monet, is open to the public. It is decorated in the original colour schemes loved by the painter.The gardens are the highlight of the visit in Giverny and in the hot weather we had,they were a welcome relief. They were laid out by Monet and include a lily pond complete with Japanese wooden bridge. The Lily pond is often central in his paintings.By the house is a very good gift shop with good quality goods.
Bayeux was the first town to be liberated by the Allied Forces in 1944. it was also lucky enough to escape damage in the war. Today it has a lovely old centre with 15th - 19th century buildings located around the main streets - rue St Martin and rue St jean. There is a beautiful Gothic cathedral. originally a Romanesque church stood on the spot. The cathedral was consecrated in 1077. It is thought that Bishop Odo (one of the tapestry's figures) commissioned the Bayeux tapestry for that occasion.Go and see the beautiful Bayeux Tapestry - in handwork it justifies William the Conqueror's invasion of England. It is 230 feet long and it was probably commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux. It shows the Battle of hastings with King Harolds defeat - including Harold getting an arrow in his eye! you can recognise the English by their moustashes and the french because they are clean-shaven.The audio...
The M.S.M. on a mountain in the sea has an unworldly appearance. According to legends in the year 708 the Archangel Michael ordered the bishop of Avranches to build a cathedral on the granite rock. 200 years later the Norman dukes had a cloister built on the spot. How the site looked changed often as buildings were added and changed.The whole mountain is covered now with towers and arches and ports making it look like something Disney designed! During the 100 years war the cloister was strengthened but this did not destroy the fairytale like appearance of the place.
Visit Rouen and the old centre. Rouen is a lovely city situated at the lowest point the river Seine could be bridged. It was severely damaged in WW II but is being restored well. There are lots of lovely historic buildings within walking distance of the city's marvellous Notre Dame cathedral. The city has a rich history - it has been a Celtic trading post, a Roman garrison and a Viking colony. In 911 it was the capital of the Norman Dutchy. In 1419 it was a captured by Henry V after a siege in the Hundred Years war. Perhaps most people remember it as where, in 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on Place du Vieux-Marche. Jean of Arc was burnt at the stake on the 30th of May 1431.
This is a Gothic cathedral whose marvellous west facade was painted almost 30 times by Claude Monet. He studied the effect the changing light had on the contours of the facade. The west facade is framed by two unequal towers. The central lantern tower is Neo-Gothic and made from cast iron and it dates from 1876. The Notre Dame cathedral is beautiful and is still being restored today after damage suffered during the war. The impressionist Claude Monet often painted this cathedral. Henry the Second of England is buried in the cathedral and also the heart of Richard the Lionheart.He was King of England and Duke of Normandy - a none English speaking King of England
The Oceanographic Museum in Monacco was soooo amazing!! It sits on a cliff overlooking the ocean and has a great view from the rooftop and from the gardens surrounding the museum. The museum itself has three floors of exhibits with the aquarium on the bottom floor(tres bien!!) It was a pleasant and welcome change of pace from the rough life we had soaking up the riviera sun day after day!!! Its the largest and most interesting museum of this nature I've ever seen. The building is beautiful and the exhibits of first quality. Jacques Cousteau was the director before he died a few years ago.
The small city of Arles is very famous because of one man: Vincent van Gogh. If you know his paintings from that period it's clear that he got very influences by the beautiful environment of the city. The houses are built in a typical "Provence" style, the trees are grey, skinny and always have big, green leaves and the field around Arles show a lot of sunflowers. All these things are shown on his paintings too. Everywhere in Arles you'll see Van Gogh's paintings on postcards, flags, posters and on painted copies. If you are here you should really take a look and see the similarities between his art and the environment.Besides the Van Gogh story you can also see a lot of Roman remainings in Arles. The city has the old remainings of what once was a Roman theatre, built in the period of Emperor Augustus. But in the centre of the city you cannot miss the great Arena. This building that is...
Most people only know the city of Avignon from the children's song "Sur le pont d'Avignon". This bridge of Avignon is a very extraordinairy attraction in the city, but there is so much more to see...The most beautiful building in the city definitely is the palace of the popes, Palais des Papes. For a very long time Avignon has been a religious centre. In this time the enormous palace was built. It opened officially in 1335. The palace can be separated into two parts. The oldest part that was built under Benedictus XII, which looks sober and strict, just like the modest role of the popes in those days. The newer part is very different: during the regime of Clemens VI a part was built with lots of decorations, paintings, sculptures and towers. Today the palace has the enormous surface of 15.000 square metres, and is partly opened for public. If you visit the palace you have free entrance...
The city of Orléans, in the very centre of France, is not really a touristical destination. The city has more heavy industry than fine attractions. Nevertheless it is a city with a big history, mostly based on one person: Jeanne d'Arc.In the year 1428, the English army attacked France. It conquered the north of the country easily, but it got difficulties when it reached Orléans. Here the inhabitants fought back, and the Englishmen struggled here for weeks. At that time, Jeanne d'Arc was only 18 years old. She received a message of God, who told her that she was the one who could save France from its enemies. Jeanne d'Arc has big problems to make the French army believe that she was the one they had to trust, but in the end she got the power. She beated the English army in Orleans and after that she repeated that several times, until the Englishmen were completely defeated. In 1431...
Four Seasons George V Paris Paris
5 Reviews and 551 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 672 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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