Lake Annecy
Lake Annecy (French: Lac d'Annecy) is a perialpine lake in Haute-Savoie in France.
Articles in France ( 6,207 )
6,207 Articles of interest in France
Click on them to get its location and coordinatesLa Cambe German war cemetery
La Cambe is a military war grave cemetery, located close to Bayeux, France.
July Column
The July Column (French: Colonne de Juillet) is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the "three glorious" days of 27–29 July 1830…
Jardins du Trocadéro
Jardins du Trocadéro (Gardens of the Trocadero) is an open space in Paris, located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, bounded to the northwest by the wings of the Palais de Chaillot and to the southeast by the Seine and the Pont d'Iéna, with the E…
Japan Expo
Japan Expo is a convention on Japanese popular culture - the largest of its kind in Europe - taking place in Paris, France, although it has branched out into a partnership festival Kultima and expanded to include some European and US pop culture as …
Col de l'Iseran
Col de l'Iseran (el. 2,770 metres (9,088 ft)) is a mountain pass in France, the highest paved pass in the Alps.
Château de Valençay
Château de Valençay is a residence of the d'Estampes and Talleyrand-Périgord families in the commune of Valençay, the Indre département of France. Although geographically it is part of the province of Berry, its architecture invites comparison with …
Château de Beynac
The Château de Beynac is a castle situated in the commune of Beynac-et-Cazenac, in the Dordogne département of France.
Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport
Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (French: Aéroport d'Ajaccio-Napoléon-Bonaparte, IATA: AJA, ICAO: LFKJ), formerly Campo dell'Oro Airport, is the main airport serving Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica.
SOLEIL
SOLEIL ("Sun" in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France.
Puy du Fou
Puy du Fou (from the name of the place which translates as "the hill of the beech", from puy and fagus) is a historical theme park in Les Epesses (between Cholet and La Roche-sur-Yon) in the heart of the Vendée region of Western France.
Passy Cemetery
Passy Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Passy) is a cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Paris sewers
The Parisian sewer system dates back to the year 1370 when the first underground system was constructed under "rue Montmartre".
List of valleys on the Moon
The Moon's surface is covered in many interesting features. Among these are several large valleys that have been given names.
Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg
The château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg (German: Hohkönigsburg) is a medieval castle located at Orschwiller, Alsace, France, in the Vosges mountains just west of Sélestat. It is situated in a strategic location on a rocky spur overlooking the Upper Rhine Pl…
Super Proton Synchrotron
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN.
Saint-Pierre, Firminy
Saint-Pierre (English: Saint Peter) is a concrete building in the commune of Firminy, France.
Pau Grand Prix
The Pau Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de Pau) is an auto race held in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, southwestern France.
Old Port of Marseille
The Old Port of Marseille (French : Vieux-Port) is located at the end of the Canebière.
International Space University
The International Space University (ISU) was founded as an international institution of higher learning, dedicated to the development of outer space for peaceful purposes through international and multidisciplinary education and research programs (I…
Hôtel Meurice
Le Meurice is a 5-star hotel in the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde and the Musée du Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli. From the Rue de Rivoli, it stretches to the Rue du Mont Thabor. The hotel was f…
Châtelet (Paris Métro)
Châtelet is a station on lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14 of the Paris Métro in the centre of medieval Paris and the 1st arrondissement.
Château de Monte-Cristo
The Château de Monte-Cristo is the country house of the writer Alexandre Dumas, père.
Avenue Foch
Avenue Foch (French pronunciation: [avny fɔʃ]) is a street in Paris, France, named after Marechal Ferdinand Foch, the French hero of the First World War, in 1929. It is one of the most prestigious streets in Paris, and one of the most expensive add…
Place du Carrousel
The Place du Carrousel (ka-ru-zel) is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, located at the open end of the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, a space occupied, prior to 1871, by the Tuileries Palace.
Musée national Gustave Moreau
The Musée national Gustave Moreau is an art museum dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898).
Montmartre Funicular
The Montmartre funicular is an automatic funicular railway serving the Montmartre neighbourhood of Paris, in the Eighteenth arrondissement. It is operated by the RATP, the Paris transport authority.
Laon Cathedral
Laon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon) is one of the most important examples of the Gothic architecture of the 12th and 13th centuries, earlier than the cathedrals of Sens and Notre Dame of Paris and ranking with them in importance. It is lo…
Juan de Nova Island
Juan de Nova Island (French: Île Juan da Nova (official), Île Juan de Nova (local)), also known as Saint-Christophe, is a 4.4 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi) low, flat, tropical island in the narrowest part of the Mozambique Channel, about one-third o…
Graian Alps
The Graian Alps (Italian: Alpi Graie; French: Alpes Grées) are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps.
Château de Loches
The Château de Loches is a castle located in the département of Indre-et-Loire in the Loire valley in France; it was constructed in the 9th century. Built some 500 metres (1,600 ft) above the Indre River, the huge castle, famous mostly for its massi…
Château de Langeais
The Château de Langeais is a medieval castle, rebuilt as a château, in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of the Roumer River at the opening to the Loire Valley. Founded in 992 by Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou, th…
Battle of Mars-la-Tour
The Battle of Mars-La-Tour was fought on 16 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, near the town of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France.
Battle of Craonne
The Battle of Craonne was fought on 7 March 1814 and resulted in a French victory under Napoleon I against Russians and Prussians under General Blücher.
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS) is a leading French institution for research and higher education . Its administrative status allows its selection process to be bot…
Saintes, Charente-Maritime
Saintes (French: [sɛ̃t]), is a commune located in southwestern France, in Poitou-Charente and Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture. Its inhabitants are called Saintaises and Saintais.