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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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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 district of Montmartre is located on the 427-foot (130-meter) Butte Montmartre in the north part of Paris. Montmartre was not incorporated into the City of Paris until 1860, and therefore retains the atmosphere of a village to this day. Known for its winding streets, sidewalk artists, and outdoor cafes, many prominent artists have lived in Montmartre, including Renoir, Picasso, Braque, and Dufy.
The Arc de Triomphe was originally intended to commemorate Napoleon's 1806 victory at Austerlitz, but now honors all of France's victorious armies. At 163 feet (50 meters) high and 147 feet (45 meters) wide, it is the biggest triumphal arch in the world.Notable sculptures on the monument include Rude's Marseillaise (also known as The Departure of the Volunteers), J.P. Cortot's Triumph of Napoleon in 1810, and Etex's Resistance of 1814 and Peace of 1815.The Arc de Triomphe is situated in the center of the Charles de Gaulle-Étoile (étoile means "star"), the busiest traffic hub in Paris. Twelve boulevards radiate from the center of the star, and thousands of cars enter the circle daily. Because France's rules of the road give the right-of-way to any car entering an intersection from the right, all cars theoretically have the right-of-way in the star. This gives rise to some of the craziest...
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is part of a monumental axis, called La Voie Triomphale, which runs in a straight line from the Louvre, along the central alley of the Tuileries Gardens, through Place de la Concorde, through the Charles de Gaulle-Étoile and the Arc de Triomphe, to La Défense, where it ends in the western suburbs of Paris.The tree-lined avenue is lined with outdoor cafes and expensive shops and boutiques, making it one of the great streets of the world.
The Louvre is one of the three greatest repositories of art in the world, along with the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Prado in Madrid. It is the world's most visited museum, with more than 8,000,000 visitors per year. The museum's collection includes some of the most famous works of art in the world, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. There are more than 400,000 works of art in the Louvre's permanent collection, but only about 35,000 pieces are on display at any one time. The displays represent eight curatorial departments, including Near Eastern Antiquities; Egyptian Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculptures; Decorative Art; Paintings; and Paintings and Drawings.The museum which is now the Louvre opened in 1793 as the Muséum Central des Arts. Over the years, its collection was supplemented when the armies of France returned with...
In this view from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the gardens and trees of the Champ-de-Mars stretch toward the east. The Champ-de-Mars was the site of huge demonstrations during the French Revolution, and was the spot from which the first hydrogen balloon was launched in 1783.Just beyond the Champ-de-Mars, the long, low buildings of the École Militaire can be seen. And, in the distance beyond the École Militaire is the Montparnasse district of Paris, and the Tour Montparnasse, the tallest building in France.
In this view from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Place du Trocadéro is the green space beyond the semicircular Palais de Chaillot from which tree-lined boulevards radiate to important points in western Paris. Place du Trocadéro was completed in 1858, and is dominated by a statue of Maréchal Foch, the French hero of the First World War.The Palais de Chaillot was built in 1937, and contains the Museum of Man; the French Cinémathèque, one of the most complete and prestigious film archives in the world; and the People's National Theater, which seats 1,800.
If you love castles, the Loire Valley is the place to be. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD was my favourite castle and is the most fascinating and therefore the most touristic castle in the Loire "Valley of the Kings". Not only is there no other chateau like Chambord, but it is also the grandest illustration of Renaissance art. To me, the most fascinating aspect of Chambord is its 365 Chimneys, all with their own characteristics.Entrance fee 40 francs ($10.00 CDN)Parking fee 6 francs ($1.50 CDN)Visited Chambord and Loire Valley September 23, 1998
For decades, St Malô was, for me, the place where adults played with the sand, building, year after year incredible and ephemeral sculptures.With a short visit, I could appreciate the wonder of the site, with the stronghold by the rocky sea (and everybody wearing anoraks in August!).It fits.Only the the classical beauty of the place surprised me!
We just returned from an area we had driven through a few times but not explored. This was the year to explore. We rented a gite in the tiny village of Cenac-et-St.-Julien on the Dordogne River and, after escaping the Iceland volcanic ash cloud that grounded flights all over Europe, we settled in to a delightful visit and decided the Dordogne was one of our very favorite regions of France.Officially, the Perigord Noir is part of Aquitaine. It is called the Perigord Noir (black) because there are so many forests that the hills look dark. Needless to say, it is green and lovely and the many rivers flowing through it add a wonderful dimension. This is an area that was fought over for hundreds of years so there is a castle on every hilltop and most are magnificent. Many are open to the public and if you climb to the highest part (the Keep), you are rewarded with incredible views.Places to...
You always hear about the Alps and they are spectacular . . . However, the Pyrenees are equally spectacular. They run the length of France from Atlantic to Mediterranean forming a barrier to Spain.Tucked away in these mountains are lovely hidden villages, monasteries, abbeys, ruined castles and churches. It is great fun to get off the AutoRoute and find these places. One year we bought Cathar Passes with discounts to all the Cathar sites and had a great time trying to visit all of them. We didn't quite get to all but we sure had fun trying.http://www.ariege.com/what_to_do/castlescaves/caves/index.html
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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